G. Jones on the Zodiacal Light. 161 
of the superincumbent strata it is expected that the mine can be | 
Worked both with profit to the owners and security to the people 
employed. A sample of the coal has been forwarded to town, 
and has been submitted to the inspéction of competent judges, 
0 ronounced it ‘to be quite equal, if not superior, in 
quality to any hitherto discovered. It appears to be that descrip- 
tion which is known as caking coal, and we understand it is very 
pure, and leaves after combustion a very small percentage of 
ash. The sample before us seems to be highly bituminous, an 
well adapted for the purpose of producing steam which sets 
machinery in motion.—North Australian.” 
Ince writing the above, while looking through the 1st vol- 
ume of the Journal of the Lndian Archipelago for information re- 
specting the coal deposits of Kedah and Ligor, we came upon a 
paragragh (p. 165) to the effect that a mass of anthracite was 
discovered near the base of Pearl’s Hill in 1846, when the exca- 
vations were being made for the foundation of Tock Sing’s Hos- 
pital. It is singular that so certain an indication of the existence 
of coal in ‘our immediate vicinity was not followed up, as a 
gallery driven horizontally from the base of the hill would soon 
have brought its contents to light. Certainly the value of anthri- 
Cite as fuel was not so well known as at the present time, although 
then, as how, it was used by steamers in preference to bitumi- 
nous coal throughout the United States; nor was the consump- 
‘on of fuel by steamers frequenting this port equal to a twen- 
heth of the present amount. The time has now arrived, how- 
ever, when any delay in prosecuting an inguiry of so muc 
Promise would impair the enterprising character of the inhabit- 
ants of this settlement. 
a ~ 
Arr. ay 1t3 = Observations on the Zodiacal Light; by Rev. 
Grorer J oNEs, A.M., Chaplain United States Navy. 
To appreciate the vast amount of labor bestowed by the ee 
Mr. Jones on his zodiacal light researches, the volume whose title 
~ Sven below should be carefully examined. It consists almost 
Wholly of celestial maps with the position of the light noted 
OWN, as ascertained at each of his observations, the maps being 
We, actual records as they were made by him at sea, accom panied 
Y the notes or remarks that were written down at the same 
. Observatio t ; ; April 2. 1853 to April 22, 1855, made 
inf on Weed the Uthat Been ake Pica. Mississippi, during her ad one 
tained, “hy Seas, and her voyage homeward, with conclusions from the data t ro o 
| i Ass v. George J, Chaplain U.S. Navy :—being Volume III of the 
‘ates Japan Expedition. Washington, 1 
ND SERIES, VOL. xx1I1, NO. 68.—MARCH, 1857. 
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