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is called Boolooa Koond. The greater part of the road is excellent, being cut from, 

 the side of the hills; the spot on which the spring is situated is considerably elevated 

 above the plain, but the ascent is very gradual, the hills are thickly covered with 

 jungle, amongst which appears the wild plantain. On arriving at the foot of the 

 spring, I had to mount some twenty steps ; at the top were several temples, the prin- 

 cipal one covering the spring, which they told me was fathomless. A small place is 

 raised at the side, the same as at Nubboo Luckee, from which issues a flame well fed 

 with ghee ; through the lower hole opening from the surface of the spring, a flame is 

 constantly coming out and running a short distance on the water, but goes out again 

 immediately. I have no doubt the ghee has something to do with it ; the water is fresh 

 with a slight sulphurous smell and taste ; but to enable you to form a better idea of 

 it than I can give, I send by my friend Major Troup, two small boxes to your address, 

 one containing three bottles of water from the Nubboo Luckee and Boolooa Koond, 

 and one taken up about half a mile from the main road, and which is said to come 

 from Soorjoo Koond, and other springs, both salt and sweet; but I was afraid to re- 

 main out any longer, lest I might lose my travelling allowance, and I could not 

 afford that. The other box contains large and small pebbles, a kind of unformed 

 slate, and some gravelly earth taken from the bed of the torrent, and a small piece 

 of coal which I picked up on the edge of the stream running from the Soorjoo 

 Koond; a small bottle of Kurkutch from the Soorjoo Koond water, and some salt 

 which I can hardly venture to call pangah, it was from the Nubboo Luckee water 

 filtered through some salt earth I brought from the spring; I must leave you to decide 

 what it is. 



Robert Ince. 

 P. S. I find that I have expended all the Soorjoo Koond water, so that you will find 

 only two quart bottles. The whole of these places are, I conceive, of volcanic origin, 

 for small flames are to be seen in many places, issuing from the ground. 1 regret much 

 now that I could not visit any of them, but hope to do so when I again go in that 

 direction. 



Through Captain Duncan, B. E., we have received from Lieut. T. C. Blagrave of 

 that corps, now in Scinde, two boxes containing fossils (mostly shells,) and one contain- 

 ing fish preserved in salt, together with a large fossil shell from Koree, by Captain W, 

 E. Baker, Engineers. 



These fossils are of very great interest, and in connection with the geological spe- 

 cimens promised us by Captain Baker, will no doubt throw light on the geology of 

 that new country; but we have as yet no note of the localities in which the fossils 

 and shells were collected. 



We received from Captain Williams, our active correspondent at Kyook Phyoo, the 

 following letters, giving an account of a remarkable appearance seen at sea from that 

 and other of the Arracan stations. 



H. Piddington, Esq., Sub- Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



My dear Sir, — Yesterday evening, at between 5 and 6 o'clock, as we were taking 

 our ride, we were alarmed by an extraordinary appearance far out at sea, as if a vessel 

 was on fire : the reflection of the flame was made on a dark bank of clouds, west of the 

 station, on the track of ships from hence to Calcutta : it flickered several times as if 



