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cause directions to be forwarded to the Steam Agent at Chunar, to receive from me free of any 

 charge for freight, any packages containing stones I may have to forward to Calcutta for experi- 

 ment. I have, &c. &c. &c. 



(Signed) W. M. Stewart, Captain, 

 Chunar, 20th May, 1844. Fort Adjutant. 



(True Copy.) W. M. Stewart. 



To H. Torrens, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 



Dear Sir,— I have the pleasure to annex a copy of a letter to my address from the Secretary 

 to the Government N. W. P., with my reply, dated 20th instant, by which you will observe, that 

 I have undertaken to prosecute the search for Lithographic stone in Rewah, as suggested in your 

 letter to the Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department, dated 14th March last. 



I have this day dispatched a party to the quarry in which white lias has already been discovered, 

 with directions to cut right through the stratum from which the stone has hitherto been quarried 

 to ascertain whether it may not be found of a closer and firmer texture underneath. 



The experiments with this stone alluded to in my letter to Mr Thornton, were made in the 

 Lithographic press attached to the Office of the Sudder Board of Revenue N. W. P. then at Alla- 

 habad. They were quarried close to the surface, and as the experiments, although unsuccessful 

 in obtaining a good impression, shewed that the stone was of the proper kind, I think it well worth 

 while to search further before pronouncing it to be a failure. 



I shall forward specimens of the stone to your address per Steamer as soon as I receive them, 

 which will probably be in the course of a month. In the meantime I will be obliged by your 

 obtaining from Captain Shortreed precise directions, whereby the locality from whence he obtained 

 the specimens forwarded to you, may be correctly ascertained; I shall thus be able in the cold 

 weather to follow up the discovery alluded to in your letter to Government, should the present 

 experiment prove unsuccessful. 



I have to request you will inform me under what official designation I may be able to correspond 

 with you in the matter under discussion. " On the public service," I am not aware whether or not 

 I can do so, as Secretary to the Asiatic Society. I remain, Dear Sir, 



Chunar, <HMh May, 1844. Your's faithfully, 



W. M. Stewart. 



P. S. — I will thank you to forward me at your leisure a few small specimens of German stone of 

 different kinds, to enable me to compare them with those found here. 



We have replied to Captain Stewart, directing his attention also to any traces 

 of organic remains which the formations in that locality might afford, and for- 

 warding hy dawk hanghy specimens of German stone for comparison. 



From Mr. Jas. Dodd, Assistant Assay Master, we have to acknowledge two very 

 handsome specimens of the matrix of the Gold of the Real del Monte Mines, and 

 two of Copper Ores from Cuba. 



Major Alexander, B. A., has obliged us with a few specimens of copper ores and 

 iron and pyrites, some of which will be of use as duplicates for exchanging, and one 

 or two will find a place in our Cabinets. Capt. Goodwyn, B. E., has added to our 

 library of reference by his valuable work on iron roofing, already noticed amongst the 

 donations of books, but which should have its place in this report also, as being one 

 day to become a text book for this important application of a mineral with which 

 India so much abounds. It may not have been noticed, but it should be so, for 



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