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and partly a woocUike coal. JN'orth-east of this is a seam 13 feet thick, at 
Gleissen, and to the eastward another, 35 feet, near Schermeissel ; and two 
thick seams are worked between. Schwiebus and Lugau. These deposits 
terminate at Padligar and Eadewitsch, south of Ziillichau. The basins of 
Koben and Steiuau, on the left bank of the Oder, continue their course on 
the right bank, and are known from Bronau,near Guhrau, as far as Polnisch- 
Wartenberg and Trebnitz ; the coal becoming more solid and in every way 
better as the seams diverge to the south-east, where it is frequently trans- 
formed into black pitch-coal (Pechkohle). It attains a thickness of 13 to 
27 feet between Wersingave and Stroppin, and from Winzig to Glogau is 
from 5 to 10 feet thick. An entirely separate deposit should be mentioned 
near Dembiohammer, between Malapane and Oppeln, which was considered 
for a long time to be true coal. Seventy miles from the brown coal at Oboruik 
on the Warthe, other deposits appear below tlie confluence of the Vistula 
and the Brahe, from the Fordon in Bromberg to Costelletz in Schwetz. 
Brown-coal deposits on the east bank of the Vistula occur at Braunsberg 
(in Konigsberg), and near Warniken and Eauschen on the Baltic coast. 
In the southern group of measures many traces of brown coal have been 
followed up by diligent investigations along the southern edges of the Sua- 
bian and Franconian Jura, from Lake Constance to the Danube, and thence 
on its left bank as far as the so-called Bavarian forest in the beds of mo- 
lasse. In the Grand Duchy of Baden good brown coal was discovered, but 
too thin to work. In Wllrtemberg also seams have been met with, but 
unworkable, except one of dysodile, 4 feet thick, near Eaudeck (in Kirch- 
heim), which is used for the manufacture of photogene and paraffin. On 
the eastern edge of these deposits, in the Bavarian territory, important 
basins are formed, one near Sauforst, where the seam has a thickness of 
from 10 to 30 feet, yielding chiefly ligneous coal. Along the northern 
slope of the ridge of mountains in front of the Alps, in Upper Bavaria, 
brown-coal seams are everywhere met with, mostly of black pitch-coal, 
which cannot be coked, but which possesses the best qualities for puddling 
and reheating iron, and for domestic purposes. In the western part of 
this basin thirty seams are known on the southern slope of the Peissenberg, 
six of which are worked and have a total thickness of about nine feet. On 
the Pensberg forty-six seams are known, fifteen of which are workable. 
In the district of Auer one seam is worked, and one also at Eschelbach, 
in the district of Schongau. At a greater distance from the mountains 
three very thin seams are known at Irrsee, in the district of Eaufbeuren. 
NOTES AND QUEEIES. 
Human Eemaixs under Peat. — In the ' Quarterly Geological Jour- 
nal,' vol. ix. 1853, p. 32, Mr. Gavey, F.G.S., stated that human remains had 
been found in blue clay, underlying peat and sand, at a depth of 9 feet 
6 inches from the surface, in a railway cutting at Mickleton, in Gloucester- 
shire. The geological evidences are detailed in Mr. Gavey 's paper at great 
length. The late Professor Baden Powell, F.E.S., inserted a note on the 
subject in his 'Essays on the Philosophy of Creation,' 8vo, London, 1855, 
p. 501, in which he states, " Considering the very long series of phy- 
sical events which thus must have occurred since the human remains were 
embedded, it becomes an important inquiry to endeavour to settle the pro- 
