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In reply to which I wrote as follows : — 



My dear Sir, — Your specimens duly arrived, and I am glad to say are as you supposed Aga- 

 matolite; the light greenish-white kind is prohahly the most valuable, but we should have some 

 good slabs and blocks sent down to ascertain their value in China, where some of the kinds, and of 

 the varieties of Jade (Axe-stone often found near these rocks,) are highly prized. You may have 

 seen in the papers that they are shipping the New Zealand kind, which is like transparent green 

 marble, to China. Carriage is the great obstacle I fear from your quarter, but however, you may be 

 able to find out a cheap road. Kindly give us early information as to localities, &c. and as the rock 

 has an evident tendency to seam and split in rhomboidal fragments, any approaching to crystals 

 would be a great prize if you can find them. 



Your best specimen of lead and antimony ore contains a mere trace of silver, but in my report 

 which has gone in to Government, I have urged the importance of sending a practical man to the 

 spot. The report is now printing, and I will send you a slip as soon as 1 get one. 



Yours very faithfully, 

 'Hind Jugust, 1843. (Signed) H. Piddington. 



From the Superintending Engineer, S. E. Provinces, Major Fitzgerald, B. E. we have received a 

 box containing the various specimens of Tin alluded to in Capt. Tremenheere's report of his visit to 

 the Pakch an river, which with the former one, will thus be available in the Museum for the inspec- 

 tion of those who may interest themselves in these matters. 



Geological and Miner alogical Department. 



Observing in a paper published by Brigadier Twemlow in the Journal, No. 135, p. 229, mention 

 made of "indurated clay with fossils" near Ellichpoor, I wrote to him, requesting the favour of 

 specimens. He has sent us one which is of much interest, a hornstone prophyry with imbedded 

 casts of shells from thence, and he promises others as soon as he can obtain them. 



My dear Sir,— I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your polite letter of the 12th 

 instant ; it will give me much pleasure if I can be of any use to the Society, and in attention to 

 your request, I forward immediately a specimen of the fossil shells alluded to in note E of my 

 communication of date 30th August, 1841, to the address of the Secretary, of the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural Society. I shall be glad if you would at your leisure inform me what the matrix is 

 and the name of the larger shell if it can be made out. I found the specimen* in the bed of a nullah 

 at the south base of the range of hills about six miles N. N. E. of this cantonment ; I will search 

 for the site whence it was washed. I am, Dear Sir, 



Yours truly, 

 Ellichpoor, July 29, 1843. George Twemlow. 



As the consideration of my note on the advantage and utility of deputing a qualified person to 

 examine the new Volcanic Island in the neigbourhood of Ramree, and the site from whence the 

 copper ore was obtained, has formed a special matter of discussion, I do not further allude to 

 it here, as it will be found in the Proceedings. H # Piddington 



* With others having the appearance of wood outside, as in the small specimen sent herewith. 

 This is a fragment of fossil bone. — H. P. 



