1855.] 



Notes on Eastern Thibet. 



215 



Table referred to by Mr. Taylor. 

 Experiments made in smelting the iron ores of Sheargur, with Char- 

 coal and Coke, in the cold season of 1837 or 38. 



Ore. 



29 Maunds... 

 29... „ 



26 ... „ 



19mds.20s rs - 

 28 maunds. .. 



27 maunds. .. 



Charcoal. 



36 Maunds. 



'32 ... 



[25 ... 



Coke. 



18 mds. 20s rs - 

 17 „ 20 „ 

 14 „ „ 



Iron. 



8 mds. 20srs, 

 10 „ 20 „ 

 20 „ 



25 „ 



8 „ 

 23 „ 



Per Cent. 



42 pr. ct. 



36| 

 32* 



25i 



35i 



In some of these experiments, a mixture of red gravel ore, highly 

 obedient to the magnet was used, and likewise Kunkur or Nodular 

 lime-stone, but I have not preserved any memorandum of the pro- 

 portion of either, or in which experiment they were used. 



Notes on Eastern Thibet. — By Dr. A. Campbell, Superintendent 

 of Earjeeling, (with Sketch Map of Route to Lasso). 



This opportunity is taken of publishing a sketch map protracted some time ago 

 by Major Crommelin, it will enable the reader to understand readily the position 

 of the principal places mentioned in Dr. Campbell's Notes. — Ed. 



Having lived many years in the Eastern portion of the Himalaya, 

 viz. in Nepal and Sikim, and visited the Bootan Dooars or Lowlands 

 annually for eight years, I have had many opportunies of becoming 

 acquainted with the natives of Thibet, who visit these countries 

 and the plains of India to trade, and on religious pilgrimages — I 

 have also travelled over the whole of Sikim, and penetrated a short 

 way into Thibet in that direction.* It is from these people, and 

 on those excursions that the substance of the following Notes has 

 been collected by a good deal of laborious questioning, and in 

 the course of official business. I am familiar with the writings 

 of Turner, Hue, and others on Thibet, I have not used them, how- 

 ever, to correct these Notes, nor do I wish to substitute my own 

 information for any portion of these published accounts. My only 

 aim is to add a little to the scanty knowledge we now have of East- 

 ern Thibet ; and I shall be glad if I have not quite failed in my 

 purpose. 



* With Dr. Hooker in 1849. 



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