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SUPPOSED BOMAJSr STONE. 



furnace, but which I am told is a mineral found in bunches 

 in the old manganese workings of the district ; it is composed of 

 manganese and iron. 



All the above finds are now placed in the Launceston 

 Museiun. 



Supposed Eoman Stone. 



Mr. 0. B. Peter sends us the subjoined sketch of a supposed 

 Eoman stone, recently found by him in the hedge of a lane 

 leading to the farm house of Trevithick, St. Thomas, and by 

 permission of Miss G-urney, the land-owner, now placed in 

 Launceston Museum. 



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fua^. 



Mr, Peter adds : — It is a kind of white tufa whose unwrought 

 general surface is tolerably smooth but is covered with oblique 



