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Though a surface specimen, and a good deal mixed with a promising 

 kind of sandstone in layers and nests, it proves to be a very fine bitumin- 

 ous Lignite, giving on analysis — 



Gaseous matter, 35.50 



Carbon, 50.25 



Ash (reddish),, , 14.25 



100.00 

 which are nearly the average constituents of the common Burdwan coal, 

 so that it is thus a very good fuel ; and if good workable beds or veins of 

 it are found, and water carriage is within reach, no doubt it may prove 

 highly advantageous to the river steamers at Dinapore and higher up. 



Babu Eammanath Bannerjee has handed to me a specimen of coal and 

 four of sandstones. The coal is found very near to the surface, at Dar- 

 jeeka, seven miles to the N. West of Eanneegunge. It is of an excellent 

 quality being quite equal to the average of the good Eanneegunge and 

 Chinakuri sorts. 



Its specific gravity is, 1.32 



Its contents in 100 parts are, 



Water, 2.90 



Gaseous matter, 31.85 



Carbon, 54.85 



Ash, 10.40 



100.00 

 Of the four sandstones three are quite worthless, but the fourth is a 

 tough compact brown sandstone with a calcareous cement, splitting in 

 layers thin enough to be used for roofing, like slates. 



To Dr. Spilsbury we are indebted for the following valuable specimens : 

 Hematite iron ore with manganese from Ponhoga, near Jubbulpore. 

 Manganese ore from Eamtek Nagpore. 

 Quartz rock with gold from Australia. 

 Massive gold from Australia. 

 Gold in ferruginous clay from Frederick's valley near Summerhill, 



Australia. 

 Massive gold with matrix from California. 

 From Captain Saxton of the Cuttack Survey we have received a speci- 

 men of the washed sand from the gold washings of the Brahminee and 

 some of the gold sand. I do not find the washed sand to contain any 

 thing worth notice, and the auriferous sand is in too small a quantity to 

 afford a portion for analysis. 



