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Minerdtogy of Southern India. 



From Major General M. Cubbon, Commissioner for the Government of 

 the Territories of the Rajah of Mysore, 



To the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Fort 

 William, dated Bangalore, 16th October, 1844. 



Sir, — With reference to a letter addressed to me on the 25th 

 January 1841, at the desire of Lord Auckland, by Mr. Assistant 

 Surgeon McClelland, Secretary to the Committee for the inves- 

 tigation of the Mineral Resources of India, I have the honor to ac- 

 quaint you, for the information of the Right Honorable the Governor 

 General of India in Council, that I have despatched to Calcutta, via 

 Madras, a cabinet of mineral specimens, collected by Mr. Assistant 

 Surgeon W. Gilchrist, attached to the Public Cattle Department of the 

 Madras Government, situated at Hoonsoor within this territory. 



2. The accompanying copy of Mr. Gilchrist's list of the minerals 

 forwarded in the cabinet, includes several specimens of the Chromate 

 of iron, about which I was particularly desired to obtain information. 



3. The package has been forwarded to your official address. 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 

 Your most obedient servant, 

 M. Cubbon, Commissioner. 

 Bangalore, 16th October, 1844. 



A. 



1 . Quartz rock, 



(White.) 



2. Quartz rock, 



(Smoke grey.) 



3. Granular quartz. 



4. Crystallized quartz, 



(on Chert.) 



5. Granular quartz, 



(Agglutinated.) 



6. Silicified wood, 



(From Pondicherry.) 

 G. Silex pebble, 



(From desert of Suez.) 



7. Silex and magnesia. 



8. Flinty slate. 



9. Flinty slate, 



(Variety.) 



10. Flinty slate, 



(Decomposing.) 



11. Chert. 



12. Chert, 



(Variety.) 



13. Chert, 



(Variety.) 



14. Chert, 



15. Chert, 



(Decomposed.) 



