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as well as a portion of the sand around it, are taken up together. The 

 horns appear to collect around them a good deal of gold dust, which 

 the streams have washed down, and with this dust grains of platina are 

 found mixed. 



The Burmese look chiefly for the gold dust, separating and bring- 

 ing that alone generally to Ava ; and although Mr. Lane has often 

 urged the men who are engaged in this trade to bring at once the 

 whole of what they take up with the horns, he has not yet been able 

 to persuade them to do so. These horns sell sometimes for 12 or 13 

 ticals a piece, and deer's horns are sometimes used instead of them. 



The Burmese call platina, Sheenthan y much of this ore is also found 

 with the gold dust collected among the small streams which fall into 

 the Erawadi, to the northward, in the direction of Banman." 



The same officer also writes, in allusion to a newspaper notice, " I 

 observe, that some correspondent in the Calcutta Government Gazette 

 states, that Kannee, where the platina ore of Ava is found, is not a town, 

 but signifies a mine. Kannee-myoo, or town, is well known as a place 

 forming the assignment of the King's aunt and step-mother, whom I 

 visited on my first arrival here; and Kannee certainly does not mean a 

 mine in the Burmese language." 



V. — New Bridge over the Mussi at Hyderabad. 

 Our notice of the Caramnassa Bridge in the Gleanings of last 

 October has, we are happy to observe, put us in possession of further 

 materials on the interesting subject of public works. On the present 

 'occasion, the merit of the undertaking is not due to a simple indivi- 

 dual, but to the enlightened policy of a native government. Several 

 indications of a similar liberal system of public improvement have 

 been manifest of late ; and that too, it must not be forgotten, after the 

 British Government has avowed a general determination of non-inter- 

 ference in the internal administration of the native states. In Oude 

 in particular, the present ministry has been forward in promoting public 

 works : the cast-iron bridge which was sent out fifteen years ago, and 

 which has since lain in rust and neglect on the banks of the Gumti, is, 

 we understand, about to be erected over that river ; and several other 

 bridges on the suspension principle are also in the course of preparation : 

 an astronomical observatory, to be provided with the best instruments, 

 has been lately established at Lakhnao : a survey of the country is in 

 contemplation ; and yet all these benefits have gone hand in hand with 

 retrenchments and reform of the civil expenditure. 



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