236 Account of a luminous Meteor seen at Charka. [No. 135. 



throughout, except at the upper end, where it was rather faint. It 

 continued in the same position, and of the same brightness for between 

 2 and 3 minutes as well as I could judge, and then gradually became 

 fainter and fainter, till it lost its brilliancy altogether : and as it began to 

 fade, it began also to become crooked, and to move towards the west. 

 It became gradually more crooked, and continued to fade till it became 

 like a thin smoke, and at last vanished away at about 3° or 4° from the 

 place where I first saw it. I listened attentively, but heard no noise. 

 From the time I first saw it till its brilliancy ceased, was probably about 

 5 minutes, and in about 3 minutes more it ceased to be any longer 

 remarkable. 



I was then at Charka, in lat. 24° 06' and long. 81° 20'. 

 Dewra, Uth April, 1842. 



Analysis of Iron Ores from Tavoy and Mergui, and of Limestone 

 from Mergui. By Dr. A. Ure, London. Communicated for the 

 Museum Economic Geology of India, by E. A. Blundell, Esq. 

 Commissioner, Tenasserim Provinces. 



On the right bank of the Tavoy river, opposite the town of Tavoy, 

 runs a range of low hills at a distance from the river varying from 

 one and a half to three miles, formed apparently of magnetic iron ore. 

 The range extends a distance of five or six miles. At about its Northern 

 extremity, on the summit of a hill about 150 feet in height, is found 

 the large projecting rock mentioned in page 28 of Dr. Heifer's Second 

 Report. This rock is about one and a half mile distant in a direct 

 line to the bank of the river, to a spot itself distant about three miles 

 North of the town of Tavoy. This large rock is highly magnetic on its 

 Northern side. (According to the expression of the natives, it is alive 

 on its Northern and dead on its Southern side). The hill appears 

 entirely formed of this ore, and at the bottom of it are to be found the 

 rolled masses of from two to twenty lbs mentioned by Dr. Heifer. Be- 

 tween the hill and the river are rice fields, through which runs a small 

 nullah, and having between the hill and the fields about quarter of a 

 mile of high ground well adapted for buildings, and on which high 

 ground are found the rolled masses or boulders above alluded to. 



