1841.] Report on the Island of Chedooba. 439 



List of Soils and from whence taken. 



1. Clay of upraised plain, near the N. W. point of the Island. 



2. From Rua Tanghee inside the above plain. 



3. From the N. W. peak. 



4. From the West Hill. 



5. From interior of Krae-roue circle. 



6. From Eastern part of Krae-roue circle. 



7. From Petroleum well of Krae-roue. 



8. From West part of Inrooma circle. 



9. From central valley of Inland (Inrooma circle.) 



10. From Petroleum well of Inrooma circle. 



1 1. From village of Meugbreng. 



12. From interior of Meugbreng circle. 



13. From Tang-roa circle near Rua Sekkea. 



14. From the summit of Pagoa Hill. 



15. From Ree-giung (Flat Island). 



16. Iron ore from North beach of Chedooba. 



17. Copper ore from different volcanoes of Chedooba. 



18. Coal or lignite from Tang-roa circle. 



19. Petroleum of Krae-roue. 



It appeared advisable to attach to the accompanying selection of the 

 soils of Chedooba, the few following observations on the subject in 

 addition to the mere list of places whence each was procured. 



In making the selection, which was done during a progress on the 

 greater part of the Island, high and low, jungle and cultivated, and mostly 

 on foot, from the 1st of January to the beginning of March, care was 

 taken to choose soils which should represent those of the greatest extent 

 to be found on the Island, and where specimens have been taken of soils 

 less general, they have still existed over extents ample enough to afford 

 room for the cu'tivation of that produce, for which they might be consi- 

 dered most applicable. But here it may be at once observed, that no 

 material difference or contrast was found to exist in the soils of Chedooba ; 

 a clay of light brown or grey colour, more or less modified, as it had 

 been subjected a longer or shorter period to the effects of tillage or na- 

 tural vegetation, constituting the bases of all. This clay base being again 

 on the eastern parts of the Island found with a large admixture of fine 

 sand. This clay base seemed to give throughout a permanence to the 

 productiveness of the soil, which must constitute a very valuable quality, 



