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gives the mansirieed acpoiion of nae manner in ela they peanian as 
the stone. 
-.“ The sea,” ee says, ‘when I saw it saciid pe sine; would wholly 
immerse or bury it out of sight, and the run extended up to the grass 
line above it, making a perpendicular rise of from 39 to 40 feet above 
the high water level. On the incoming waves striking the stone, we 
could see this monstrous mass of upwards of 40 tons weight lean land- 
wards, and the back run would uplift it again with a jerk, leaying it 
with very little water about it, when the next incoming wave made it 
recline again. We did not credit the former inhabitants of the island, 
who remarked that the sea would reach the storehouse which we were 
building; and when these stones were said to have been moved it was 
treated with no credit, and was declared by all the workmen at the light- 
house works to be impossible ; yet the natives affirmed it to be so, and 
said if we were long here we might yet see it. They seemed to feel 
a kind of triumph when they called me to see it on the day of this great 
storm.” 
_ 2. Cotton in India; (Atheneum, No. 964, p. 398.)—Dr. Royle 
communicated to the Asiatic Society on March last, a letter from Dr. 
Wight, relative to the progress which the cultivation of cotton is making 
in India, and showing a degree of success and magnitude of produce _ 
far exceeding what had been expected. He stated that 30,000 lbs. 
have been already gathered, and “one field, of which regular accounts 
are kept, has already yielded 700 lbs. per acre.” 
- 3. Roman Coins.—In a field in the commune of Plourhau, (Cotes- 
du-Nord,) the discovery has been made of an immense number of 
‘oman coins, estimated at no less than 18,000 or 20,000. The heap 
weighs sixty kilogrammes. The pieces include a great variety of 
types—many representing mythological subjects—and are generally in 
good preservation. Most of them appear to present at least nineteen 
centuries of antiquity; and they are conjectured to have belonged to 
Some detachment of Roman troops obliged suddenly to quit the country, 
who may have buried them in the hope of some day returning to reclaim 
‘them. 
4, Anthracite and Bituminous Coal in. China; by R. C. Tartor, 
(Phil. Mag. March, 1846, xxviii, p. 204.)—It is probable that coal was 
discovered, and was in common use in China, long before it was known 
in the western world, It is mentioned by a noble traveller of the 13th 
century, as abounding throughout the whole province of ‘“* Cathay,” of 
which: Pekin is the capital, ** where certain black stones are dug out of 
‘Mountains, which stones burn when kindled, and keep alive for a 
long time, and are used by many penn notwithstanding the abun- 
dance of wood,” 
