CHINA, MONGOLIA, AND JAPAN. 55 



Aulopora tubaeformis, Goldfuss ; Spirifer Chechiel, De Koninch ; Rliynclionella 

 Yuenamensis, De Koninck. 



Some fossil brachiopods from Gouchouc, twenty leagues W. S. W. from Patang 

 on the Kinsha Kiang, and near the Tibet-Sz'chuen frontier, were determined by M.' 

 Guyerdet^ as foUows : Terebratula cuboides, Soio, carb. and Devon., figured in 

 Descript. des Anim. foss. de la Belgique, De Koninck, 1842 — 1844, p. 285. Tere- 

 bratula reticularis, Linne, Devonian ; figured in Russia and the Ural mountains : 

 Murchison and v. Keyserling, II, 90. Terebratula pugnus, Martin; figured in 

 Sowerby, Conchyl. pi. ccccxcvii. Mr. Woodward has described an Orthoceras from 

 China.^ 



Hoslian {Fire Mountains). — These are without doubt burning seams of coal. One 

 of these burning mountains, called Hoyau, occurs 55 li N. W. of Kwangling in 

 Tatung (fu), Shansi.^ 



Sir R. I. Murchison speaks of some Upper Devonian fossils, from Sz'chuen, given 

 to him by Dr. W. Lockhart, as " identical in specific character with Spirifer Ver- 

 neuilii, S. Archiaci, Productus subaculeatus, and other European forms."* 



I was told by the Rev. Mr. Edkms that the island of Situngting in the Taihu 

 lake (west of Shanghai) contains fossiliferous limestone. 



In the following table are given a large number of localities of coal and alum 

 (the latter is made in China, I believe, always from pyritiferous shales that accom- 

 pany coal), to be used in locating the coal-bearing formation ; and of indications of 

 limestone, as limestone-marbles, limestone, caves, stalactites, fossil brachiopods, etc. 

 These localities are in every instance, unless otherwise stated, taken from Chinese 

 geographical works, especially from the Tatsingytungchi, and the geographies of 

 the separate provinces. 



This is followed by a table of salt wells in Yunnan and Sz'chuen, which wiU be 

 explained further on ; and by a table of gold-bearmg localities to assist in locating 

 the granito-metamorphic formation. 



» Comtes Rendus. Acad, des Sciences, Paris, 1864, LVIII, No. 19, p. 878. 



=" Quart. Journ. Greol. Soc, 1856, p. 379. ' Biot, in Joura. Asiat, 1840, October. 



' Siluria, p. 425. Loud. 1859. 



