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Notice of Human Eemains in Cornwall. — Dear Sir, — While read- 

 ing the Autobiography of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, I met with the 

 following passage in one of her letters, which, as bearing on a most in- 

 teresting subject at the present time, deserves to be further investigated 

 by those of your readers who reside near the place mentioned, in order to 

 discover the truth of her statement.. 



In describing her journey from Truro to Palmouth, she says, " Near 

 Gwennap is a place worth seeing, called Carnon Stream Works. Instead 

 of mining for tin, they here direct streams over the sides of the hills, so 

 as to wash down the loose tin, which is here termed ' stream tin.' Here 

 have been found many interesting antiquities, — a pickaxe made of elk's- 

 horn, flint arrow-heads, and human skeletons, — buried beneath several 

 strata (alternately of fresh- water and marine shells), twenty-four feet from 

 the present surface of the ground." This was written in 1825. 



Yours truly, E. D., Berwick-upon-Tweed. 



The Coal Trade. — The total shipments of coal foreign and coastwise 

 last year are estimated at 19,161,615 tons, as compared with 18,159,488 

 tons in 1860, and 17,218,972 tons in 1859. Newcastle last year shipped 

 1,916,588 tons of coal and 128,773 tons of coke oversea, and 2,345,017 tons 

 of coal and 20,972 tons of coke coastwise ; Sunderland, 1,023,495 tons of 

 coal and 39,319 tons of coke oversea, and 1,881,299 tons of coal and 268 

 tons of coke coastwise ; the Hartlepools, 595,674 tons of coal and 18,566 

 tons of coke oversea, and 1,402,258 tons of coal and 6,508 tons of coke 

 coastwise ; Liverpool, 650,106 tons of coal and 9,582 tons of coke oversea ; 

 Cardiff, 1,123,557 tons of coal and 5,153 tons of coke oversea, and 880,961 

 tons of coal and 7,976 tons of coke coastwise ; Swansea, 411,377 tons of 

 coal and 1,398 tons of coke oversea, and 190,612 tons of coal, 53 tons of 

 coke, and 51,902 tons of culm coastwise ; Newport, 213,585 tons of coal 

 and 22 tons of coke oversea, and 711,225 tons of coal and 2,040 tons of coke 

 coastwise ; Shields, 56,589 tons of coal and 2,133 tons of coke oversea, and 

 23,746 tons of coal coastwise ; Blyth, 147,440 tons of coal oversea, and 

 133,065 tons of coal coastwise; Seaham., 60,837 tons of coal oversea, and 

 620,465 tons of coal coastwise ; Middlesborougli, 106,506 tons of coal and 

 37,159 tons of coke oversea, and 198,958 tons of coal and 3,082 tons of coke 

 coastwise ; Hull, 129,849 tons of coal and 422 tons of coke oversea, and 

 10,262 tons of coal coastwise ; Llanelly, 106,376 tons of coal and 4,797 tons 

 of coke oversea, and 262,201 tons of coal and 11,922 tons of culm coast- 

 wise ; Glasgow, 81,171 tons of coal and 1,542 tons of coke oversea ; Port 

 Glasgow, 16,852 tons of coal oversea ; Greenock, 65,245 tons of coal and 

 899 tons of coke oversea ; Grangemouth, 71,045 tons of coal and 377 tons 

 of coke oversea ; Alloa, 58,635 tons of coal and 37 tons of coke oversea, and 

 9,334 tons of coal coastwise ; Whitehaven, 2,498 tons of coal oversea, and 

 182,146 tons of coal and 1,203 tons of culm coastwise; Maryport, 374,801 

 tons of coal and coke coastwise ; St. David's, 55,898 tons of coal oversea, 

 and 5,166 tons of coal coastwise ; Ardrossan, 35,800 tons of coal oversea, 

 and 79,906 tons of coal coastwise ; Charlestown, 60,305 tons of coal over- 

 sea, and 53,632 tons of coal coastwise ; Inverkeithing, 24,499 tons of coal 

 oversea, and 8,295 tons of coal coastwise ; and Borrowstonness, 28,645 ton- 

 of coal and 234 tons of coke oversea, and 53,476 tons of coal coastwise. 



Turtle Remains in the Upper Greensand. — The i^hosphatic nodules 

 of the Upper Greensand of Cambridge are well kno wn to geologists from 

 their extensive commercial use in the manufacture of super-phosphate of 

 lime for agricultural purposes. The nodules have been secreted in or 

 around various organic remains, many of which, such as the bones, w^ere 

 often, probably, broken up before the concretion of the phosphatic matter 



YOL. Y. L 



