1843.] Asiatic Society, 833 



distance of about thirty bamboos a new island, where from the 19th to the 22d Wach- 

 loo,* of the Mughee year 1205, there appeared of a sudden a fire (supernatural fire.) 

 Considering this as a subject of importance, the petitioner brings the same to the notice 

 of Hozoor. 



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Tt was proposed and carried unanimously, that the Secretary be request- 

 ed to draw up for the approval of the Society, a representation to Go- 

 vernment, setting forth the great scientific and other advantages which 

 might be derived, were a qualified person deputed to examine and report 

 upon the singular and highly interesting phenomena adverted to in Capt. 

 Williams' communication ; inasmuch as some account of the Volcano 

 would be most eagerly looked for by the scientific world at home, and its 

 proximity to us would render neglect on the part of the Society most 

 inexcusable, and indeed disgraceful. 



The Curator Museum Economic Geology and of the Geological and 

 Mineralogical Department, stated, that ill health for the last month had 

 prevented his drawing up his report; but he begged to read part of it, 

 being a report on a reference from Government relative to a newly dis- 

 covered Sulphur bed, at Kurachee in Scinde, as follows :— 



No. 32 of 1843. 



From Captain J. Preedy, Collector and Magistrate, Kurrachee, to Captain C. J, 

 Brown, Commissioner in Scinde, Hyderabad* 

 Sir, — I have the honor to report for your information, that 1 have discovered an ap- 

 parently extensive bed or mine of Sulphur in the vicinity of Ghizree Bundur. My 



* A certain Mughce month. 



