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raised, purified in their moral natures, and led to happiness. 

 After this cometh the end, when the world shall be changed 

 and its surface altered by fire ; and it shall be in its moral 

 constitution, not a world of intellectual beings merely, but 

 also of beings possessed of purity and happiness, to which 

 shall be joined the gift of immortality ; for then death, and 

 the till then changeful nature of our earth shall cease. 



In all this succession of event and of being, each rising 

 over the preceding in excellence and importance, we may 

 discover increasing and richer revelations of the nature and 

 character of God, as manifested through His works, in their 

 progress to a higher standard of perfection ; there is in them 

 a farther and more abundant development, an unveiling of 

 His glory; and a more extended and exalted field for the 

 occupation of the observing, reasoning, and thinking facul- 

 ties of intellectual beings of whatever class, whether angels 

 or men. 



Notes on Rajmehal CoaL* 

 At Rajmehal coal has been found by Captain Tanner in 

 two situations ; viz. at Sicrigully, on the banks of the Gan- 

 ges, and at Hurrah, twenty-five miles distant. With regard 

 to Sicrigully, this place has been recently visited by Lieut. 

 Don, who reports to the Committee, that as far as he and 

 Lieutenant Egerton, who accompanied him, could determine, 

 no coal exists at the foot of the Mootee Jarna water-fall, 

 where it was supposed to have been observed by Captain 

 Tanner.f 



2, At Hurrah, large quantities of coal have been extracted, 

 but although we have every information relative to the 



* From the Proceedings of the Coal Committee. 



t We are informed by Mr. C. Glass, that there is a coal mine at 

 Sicrigully, but not at the foot of the water-fall, the spot visited by 

 Lieut. Don, but near the village of Maharajpore, in the vicinity of 

 the water-fall Mootee Jarna. — Vide Proceedings of the Coal Committee, 



