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Notes on the Iron of the Kasia Hills, for the Museum of Economic 

 Geology. By Lieutenant Yule, Engineers. 



We have had much pleasure in giving with this valuable article, (not the last we 

 trust that the Museum will be favoured with from Lieutenant Yule,) the spirited 

 sketch, No. I. which accompanied it, but No. II. was found to be exactly similar to 

 that accompanying Mr. Cracroft's paper on the smelting of the Iron Ores of the Kasia 

 Hills, in Journal As. Soc. Vol. I. p. 150, and being rather graphic than of manu- 

 facturing utility, we take the liberty of referring our readers to that volume. — Ed. 



These notes are very imperfect, but having no prospect of opportunity 

 to render them more complete, I am unwilling to withhold them, such 

 as they are. 



I believe iron ore is excavated at intervals throughout this great 

 range of hills by all the various races who inhabit them, Garrows, 

 Kassias, and Nagas, of many tribes. 



The district in which these notes were taken, includes the large 

 villages of Nongkrem and Moliem, near the banks of the Ka-umyam, or 

 Boya Pani, about eighteen miles north of Cherra, and for a space five or 

 six miles in length from east to west by two in breadth, exhibits old 

 or new excavations in every hill-side. So marked an effect have these 

 works achieved on the undulating hills which cover the country, that in 

 many instances what must once have been like their neighbours, round, 

 swelling knolls, appear to have collapsed and sunk to their skeletons, 

 shewing nothing but fantastic piles of naked boulders ; the earth which 

 once bound and covered them, having been entirely washed out by the 

 heavy rains following in the track of the miner. So numerous and exten- 

 sive are the traces of former excavations, that judging by the number at 

 present in progress, one may guess them to have occupied the population 

 for twenty centuries. The mines are so similar, that the description of 

 one will sufficiently apply to all. It presents to view a semi-circular 

 See Sketch A. broken slope of debris and boulder, on the hill 

 side, exactly such as is described by the word scar used in the north 

 country at home. A small stream of water is con- 

 ducted along the slope to the site of the present 



