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Scientific Intelligence. 



[No. 8, NEW SEKIES, 



In the Himalayas, along the North-East side of the Brahmapoo- 

 tra, the coal is found in small seams of sand-stone alternating with 

 strata of conglomerates of pebbles (Nageflue,) the pebbles being 

 remarkably smaller than the deposits of the present rivers. 



To these sedimentary rocks succeed, at a short distance from 

 the banks (much shorter than in the Western Himalayas,) crys- 

 talline hornblendic rocks, chiefly hornblendic gneiss, with a pecu- 

 liar linear arrangement of quartz nodules succeeding each other, 

 when seen, in the proper section, like beads on a string. 



The dip of the stratification in the sand-stones and conglome- 

 rates, which form the outer ranges of the Bhootan Himalayas, is 

 very well defined by the alteration of the finely grained sand-stones 

 with the conglomerates. 



The dip of the strata is North 30 degrees to 40 degrees West, 

 inclination 55 degrees to 65 degrees. 



In the crystalline hornblendic rocks, the cleavage, which is well 

 developed, dips also in the same direction. The mean direction 

 of this dip was also found North 30 degrees to 35 degrees West, 

 inclination 55 degrees to 60 degrees. 



It is deserving of remark, that this dip of stratification and 

 cleavage planes are quite analogous to the direction of dip in 

 Sikhim and the Western Himalayas of Kumaon and Gurhwal. In 

 all these parts of the Himalayas the dip of the cleavage is chiefly 

 Northerly, varying in different parts to the East or to the West, 



Hermann Schlagintweit. 



A Storm at Chicacole. 



Mr. Thonhill, Principal Assistant Collector of Ganjam reported 

 on the 5th August 1858, for the information of Government, that 

 a slight shock of an earthquake was experienced in Chicacole on 

 the 3rd instant at 3j p. m. It was accompanied by a rumbling 

 sound like thunder and seemed to travel from South to North. 



