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of manufacture of different kinds of iron ; by G. 



Grenfell, Esq. 

 Specimens of the principal coal beds, and of the iron ore, worked 



in the Forest of Dean ; by — Protheroe, Esq. 

 Specimens of the principal working beds of the Newcastle coal 



field ; by Charles Bigge, Esq. 

 Together with others, if the Government should desire them, which 

 Mr. De la Beche will, I have no doubt, with the consent of the 

 Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, be able to forward 

 from time to time from the Museum of Economic Geology ; many 

 duplicates and spare pieces being often available for the purpose. 



Some of the leading features of the mineral wealth of England, and 

 the methods by which it is turned to the best advantage, will be 

 thus represented, and will afford the means of comparison with similar 

 products and processes in this country. 



The mineral resources of India although more abundant, and more 

 generally diffused than those of any other portion of the globe of 

 equal surface, have hitherto attracted little attention ; and have been 

 aided in a very slight degree by the means which are necessary to 

 their proper development. The search for metallic ores has been 

 unguided either by the principles of science, or by the practice of other 

 mining countries and workings conducted without the skill and 

 power required to prosecute them successfully, have been confined 

 to within small distances from the surface. Hence the stores of 

 useful metals which India is known to possess remain comparatively 

 untouched, and present at this day, almost a maiden field for im- 

 provement. 



Enclosure No. 2, represents in a tabular form, localities wherein 

 ores of the useful metals have been worked, and others which have 

 been observed and recorded. The following is an abstract of the 

 paper alluded to, showing the number of places in each of the princi- 

 pal ranges of hills, which produce the undermentioned ores. 



