194 Mineralogy of the Island of Ceylon. 
lows; and lately, an attempt, has been made by Govern- 
ment to establish a forge in Han 
Of the above minerals, and of almost all others, indeed, 
the part of this Island which we occupy is entirely desti- 
tute. The District of Jaffna is a perfectly level bed of 
sand, sometimes of a clayey order, on a continued substra- 
tum of a Coral. This species of stone (if it may be called 
such,) is almost the only one in Jaffna. In those parts of 
line, which goes into the composition of this stone, is of the 
most ordinary kind. It grows in the shallow waters all 
