1840.] 



from tlie Peninsula of India. 



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with acids it affords from re-agents the usual indications of this metal. 



95. — Iron glance, imbedded in white quartz, from the hills of Cupput- 

 ral, Ceded Districts, the fer oUgiste of French mineralogists. Before 

 the blow-pipe, per se, it blackens and becomes affected by the magnet. Iron 

 glance yields an excellent malleable ore. 



96. — -Granular magnetic iron ore, from Mutpalle — Nizam's country. 



97. — Red hematitic iron ore, from the iron clay near Kondassur- Ni- 

 zam's country. The iron produced from the two last named varieties is 

 used when blended to produce the celebrated wootz steel, which is 

 exported to Persia and Arabia for sabre blades. 



98. — Specular iron ore — Sondur bills, Ceded Districts. It, as well as 

 the micacious iron ore, is often sold as surma\ or antimony, in the bazaars 

 of Southern India, and applied in the state of a powder to eyelids of 

 women and children. 



99. — Lead ore (galena) near Jungumrazpilly, in the Nulla Mulla hiUs, 

 north of Cuddapah, said to be combined with silver and antimony. 



100. — Gold dust in magnetic iron sand with menaccanite, silver and 

 copper ore (and platinum ?) in the bed of the Doni rivulet, Kupputgode 

 hills, South Mahratta Country. 



101. — Native silver — same locality. 



102. — Grey silver ore — do. 



103. — Green carbonate of copper — do. 



104. — Native copper— do. do. 



105. — Tin ore (oxide) from Malacca. 



106. — Diamond alluvium ; from the diamond pits at Ramulacota— 

 Kurnool. 



107. — Do. do. last washings. 



108. — Cacholong, milk white, opaque, fracture semiconchoidal. This 

 specimen presents both the hard and the soft earthy varieties, noticed 

 by Brongniart in the cacholongs found by him at Champigny, the 

 former exhibiting a shining fracture, while the latter is chalky, light, and 

 adhei'es to the tongue. 



109. — Brown indurated clay, imbedding quartz crystals, and covered 

 with yellowish annular and lenticular delineations, assimilating organic 

 remains, associated with laterite, resting on the floetz trap of the Deccan, 

 south of Bijapore. 



*1 10.— Mineral from edge of trap dyke, near Tallapodatoor, Ceded 

 Districts. 



Ill, — Nodule of indurated clay from lateritic foiimation — Nellore. 

 • I regret leisure will not admit of my noting this mineral. 



