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Correspondence, 



tions of Native Rajas, who leave the workmen hardly more than is 

 barely sufficient to cover their expenses. 



The locality of these mines was formerly under British protection, 

 when there were upwards of a thousand inhabitants and rapidly im- 

 proving, but subsequently our protection was withdrawn, and the 

 population has dwindled down to three or four hundred. 



The land is rich, the climate healthy, and elevated about 120 

 feet above the sea. The district at present is quite useless, but it 

 belongs nominally to the Malay Pungools, to whom it was given up 

 when fixing the boundary in 1833. 



The Gold mines are from 12 to 250 feet deep, the Gold is 

 detached from the pieces of rocks by pounding, and is then separated 

 from the sand by washing, for which the numerous springs in the 

 vicinity afford every facility. The profit of these Gold mines is said 

 to have always been considerable, a single workman being able to 

 obtain, without any uncertainty, two Company's Rupees weight of 

 Gold per diem, and the mines may be worked the whole year round 

 without interruption. The expense of labour is at present from three 

 to four dollars per month. 



Liebig's Organic Chemistry applied to Agriculture, &;c.. Reviewed by 

 Dr. ScHLEiDEN. — (Translated from the German.)* 



Few books published in modern times have excited a more lively in- 

 terest or attracted more attention from numerous classes all over Eu- 

 rope, than the publication, whose title is at the head of this paper, 

 though apparently the number of its readers must be limited. Soon 

 after its publication it was hailed, by a great number of people, as a most 



* Since this remarkably poignant critique has appeared, another equally un- 

 favourable has been given by Dr. Mohl, which we propose reprinting in the next 

 number. 



It may be interesting to our readers to know, that both MM, Schleiden and 

 Mohl are distinguished authorities, the former being conspicuous for his researches 

 on vegetable organisation generally, »more particularly as regards the origin of the 

 vegetable cell, and vegetable embryo. 



