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PART II. 
For the Year 176a. 
LX IV. Extraff of a Letter of Mr. John 
Wood, from Calcutta, to J. Perry, Efq ; 
of Hamftead. Communicated by the Rev , 
W. Stukeley, M. D. 
Read Jan 7, JF R. Plaifted, who is gone in quality 
\/ 1 of furveyor, with a party, to take 
■L ▼ pofleflion of the province of Che- 
tagou, lately yielded up to the company by the new 
Nabob, gives me an account of two natural curiofities, 
which he has met with, which I think worth com- 
municating to you. 
He writes, that the party entered the province of 
Chetagou, on New-years-day 1761 ; and after tra- 
velling fifty-four miles, came to a city called Iilama- 
bad, the chief of the faid province j beyond which, 
about a mile and half, they met with a burning rock, 
that continually emitted a weak flame from feveral 
parts, that might be extinguifhed for a time, and 
V o l. LI 1 . H h h which 
