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appearance from the ordinary sand of the district, and which it would, 

 perhaps, be worth while to submit to the Chemical Examiner of the 

 Government for analysis. 



6. From a memorandum by Mr. Wilson, the Joint-Magistrate, 

 who visited the place of ejectment, and to whom I am indebted for 

 the specimen, it appears that no sand has ever been found there in the 

 deepest excavations, so that it must have been forced up from a great 

 depth. 



7. Similar jets and fissures appear to have also occurred near Mr. 

 Miller's tea garden on the Sungoo. 



8. It may also be worth mentioning that my camp being at the 

 time in its vicinity, I visited on Saturday, the 16th instant, the burn- 

 ing well at Koomaree Koond. This is one of five such wells on the 

 Seetacoond range which are ordinarily supposed to be connected with 

 internal volcanic agency. At the time of my visit it was burning, an 

 igneous gas rising from the surface of the water and igniting in contact 

 with the atmosphere, but it gave no emissions of more than the ordi- 

 nary strength ; nor, so far as can be ascertained, did any of the others, 

 during these recent indications of internal volcanic action. 



" I yesterday visited Mouzah Guzara, in Thannah Roajan, for the 

 purpose of examining the effects which were reported to have been 

 produced there by the late earthquake. 



" I found that in several places sand and water had burst out of cracks 

 in the clay soil. None of these jets or springs were at work when I 

 went to the place, but each had left a heap of fine dark coloured sand. 

 These heaps are of various sizes. The smallest is as large as a mole 

 hill, and the largest which I saw perfect was about 12 feet in diameter 

 and about 3 feet in the centre. This sand heap (on the land of Syud 

 Sultan) was still wet at 3 o'clock yesterday, and the ground around 

 it on all sides shewed signs of having been recently flooded. It ap- 

 peals that this jet of sand and water, which no doubt began to play at 

 the time when the first violent shock of the earthquake was felt, 

 (0-50 i>. if., 15th December, 1865) went on working till ten or half 

 past ten the next morning. The water rose (T was told) some inches 

 from the ground, and (as far as I could learn) it was cold. 



