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JS/ote By the Editor, 



Note to page 86. 



We must be excused from entering into a disquisition on the mine- 

 ralogical differences of rocks, which would lead to endless, and, we fear, 

 fruitless controversy. It is not the practice of the Editors of this 

 Journal to remark on the communications of those who address the So- 

 ciety; the facts narrated and the opinions maintained are considered 

 to be exclusively on the responsibility of the authors, and as such are 

 usually submitted, without comment, to the Press. The Editorial 

 note appended to our last number was not intended to be in contraven- 

 tion of Captain Campbell's statements, but solely to vindicate the sci- 

 entific character of a respected correspondent now no more. We still 

 maintain that Dr. Benza describes no other rock specifically than the 

 hornblende rock or greenstone found in situ at Seringapatam ; on the 

 authority of Buchanan, and deceived by the external resemblance be- 

 tween that rock and the material of the pillars, he states, in general terms, 

 the identity of the two ; but he did not examine the internal structure 

 of the pillars, nor did he vi^it the quarry at Cudhully ; if he had, we 

 are quite sure he would not have pronounced either of them to be horn- 

 blende. 



We must here mention, however, that we have been led into an error 

 regarding Lieut. Newbold's specimen, by the circumstance of his 

 stating the pillars at Seringapatam and the stone of the quarry at 

 Cudhully to be a variety only of the steatite which he was describing 

 a specimen of from another locality. The latter is undoubtedly what 

 he termed it; and the former is evidently one of the numerous varieties 

 of serpentine, a nearly allied rock to steatite; judging from Lieut. 

 Newbold's specimen, and also from a fragment from the pillars them- 

 selves, politely sent down to Madras by Captain Campbell for our in- 

 spection. — Editor. 



Note to page 40. 



With reference to the colour of the Naga, Mr, Elliot subsequently 

 writes, it should be dark yellowish-ash, I think, but really the hue 

 puzzles me." — Editor. 



