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These consist of vesicular Trap, or Amygdaloid, of a dull reddish 

 brown colour, containing embedded crystals of fibrous Zeolite, Cubieite s 

 Green Earth, Rock Crystal and Chalcedony. 



The following notice, from a paper by Mr. James Bird, in the 3d 

 number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, will afford an idea 

 of the formations whence these specimens are derived. 



" The elevated table-land of the Dekkan is exclusively composed of 

 rocks belonging to the floetz-trap formation. The hills which rise on 

 the western ghats as a base have conical or tabular forms, and are 

 sometimes distributed in long ridges or terraces w T hich run east-north- 

 east. 



" At the openings in the hills west of Punah, known by the name of 

 the Ghats, and which are the passages from the lower land of the Kon- 

 kan into the higher land of the Dekkan, these tabular forms are grand 

 and beautiful. They are generally triangular shaped, and insulated 

 from each other by broad and deep ravines, of which the perpendicular 

 descent cannot be less than twelve or thirteen hundred feet. 



" The rock composing these tables is compact basalt of a black co- 

 lour, in which hornblend predominates. 



" About Punah, and further south-eastwards, the rocks are generally 

 amygdaloidal, and become lighter in colour the farther they are re- 

 moved from the western entrance. This amygdaloid is in no respect 

 different from the toad-stone of extra tropical climates. It shews 

 embedded masses of calcedony, zeolites, and green earth ; and in the 

 neighbourhood of water courses, at the depth of five-and-twenty or 

 thirty feet below the surface, contains drusy cavities of crystallized 

 quartz, the appearance of which, in digging wells, indicates that water 

 is near." 



A collection of Mineral specimens from vari- 

 ous parts of the Peninsula of India, by. .Captain Boileau. 



A figure of a Burmese Deity Hon. Sir R. Palmer, 



The sumpitan, or blowpipe, and a quiver of 

 poisoned arrows used by the Jacoons, a sa- 

 vage race inhabiting the mountains and for- 

 ests of the Southern parts of the Malay 

 Peninsula, once the property of one of 

 their Batins or chiefs, by whom they were 

 presented to the donor Lieut. Newbold* 



A specimen of the rude cloth worn by them 

 round the loins, made from the fibrous bark 

 of the Terap tree Do. 



A hunting basket worn across the shoulders. . Do, 



A rude call or whistle used by the Malays.. Do. 



A Malayan Buah-raga, or foot-ball Do. 



A Malayan spear used by the Malayan chiefs.. Do. 



