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The Possiette coal lias a vitreous fracture, more like English Cannel coal, is very bitu¬ 
minous, and burns quickly; leaves a large residue of whitish brown ash, with a moderate 
quantity of clinker; deposits soot much more than Newcastle coal. 
The Dui coal appears to he a lignite. 
In Japan also several kinds of coal occur, only small quantities arc obtained, and the 
Daimios will not allow it to be sold for public use, so that not much is known regarding 
the qualities of the coal. There are five kinds, known as Gorio, Hirado, Korkora, Emakbodkh, 
and Korgak, which appear to possess good qualities. And several others which are very 
inferior, forming an immense quantity of clinker, and unfit for steaming purposes, though 
no doubt valuable for domestic use. 
The Korkora coal is of two qualities; one inferior, dirty brown, showing thin rod 
layers when broken and conchoidal in fracture. The better land is bright, clean and hard, 
liable to form clinker, so that it was found desirable to increase the apertures between the 
fire-bars with the ordinary tubular boilers. It resembles Sydney coal in appearance, and 
appears to have a waste (ash, soot, and clinker) of about 30 per cent. 
Korgah coal recently brought to Nagasaki is very similar in appearance and quality. 
Emakbodkh coal shows clayey layers, and conchoidal laminations of a white calcareous 
substance, either carbonate or sulphate of lime. This scaly appearance is characteristic. 
It burns well, though with much smoke. 
Hirado coal is either hard or soft. The soft kind cannot be used for steaming, as it 
is reduced to powder by being shaken up in the bunkers, otherwise it is a good coal. Of the 
harder coal there are two varieties; one abounds in earthy matter and silica, producing a 
vitreous glaze on the clinker, and tho other is light in appearance, resembling Welsh coal, 
and contains about 72 per cent, of carbon. It has a cubical fracture. Consumption is about 
\ more than best Welsh coal, with which, however, it might be advantageously mixed. 
Tho best of the Japanese coals is the Gorio; a clean hard cubical coal, like Welsh, and 
with 73 per cent, of carbon. Only small quantities, however, have been brought to Nagasaki; 
and the mine has fallen in in consequence of heavy rains, so that some time will elapse before 
the old workings can bo made use of. 
A remarkable coal has been brought in small quantity from Ivauai, in the north part of 
Nipon, where there appears to be a large mine of it. Tho Daimio to whom it belongs is not 
friendly to foreigner's, and the coal is therefore procured with difficulty. The coal is worked 
by the Japanese. It is a clean highly bituminous coal, and will burn with flame in the light 
of a caudle. “ It appears like tho rest to he a lignito.” Quar. Jour. Geol. Soc,, London, 
Vol. XXIV, p. 98.—(T. 0.). 
Meteorites. —Through the kindness of Dr. M. Hornes, Director of tho Imperial Mineral 
Cabinet, Vienna, we have received a valuable addition to our series of meteorites. This is 
a very lino specimen of tho fall which took placo near Pultusk in the vicinity of Warsaw on 
the 30th of January in the present year. 
Through tho Austrian Consul General in Warsaw Dr. Homes had procured a specimen, 
the third largest which fell. This was divided into three parts for examination, and of 
these three Dr. Homes with his usual liberality has sent to me the second in size. It weighs 
6oz. 398grs. The largest Specimen which fell was in possession of a private party ; the second 
largest went to the Imperial Mineral Collection in St. Petersburg]]. 
The fall occurred on tho river Narew, about half way between Pultusk and Ostrolonka, 
about 36 English miles north-east of Warsaw. The stone sent to Vienna was actually picked 
up in the village of Sielc Novvy. 
Dr. W. Haidinger, in a briof notico of this fall (read to the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
at Vienna, on 12th March 1868) says : “ From the various reports which have appeared, it is 
clear that we have here again to-deal with a truly magnificent phenomenon, beginning as 
a shooting star, afterwards appearing as a fireball of half the diameter of the moon, then 
vast detonations, at last a fall of meteoric stones, over a tolerably large extent of ground.” 
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