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tree having, after being transplanted, borne fruit without the disease, 
a still further proof is furnished that the soil is not the cause. The 
experiment upon the bark and the cutting down of the tree and the 
return of the disease on the new branches and fruit, show that the 
disease was not derived from external sources after the tree was 
planted, but must have been derived from the seed—and unless 
other planters by other experiments can prove that after such, the 
fresh fruit is uninjured, the last conclusion I would draw is that 
when the disease becomes so bad as I have described, the sooner 
the tree is out of the ground and another planted, the better. 
Bonny Grass. R. j,. 
GOLD IN SARAWAK. FALL OF A PORTION OF TRIAN, AN 
AURIFEROUS MOUNTAIN. 
The rains at the beginning of this month of last year, fell in 
great quantities in Sarawak, and a considerable portion of the lace 
of a mountain called “Trian” was washed down into the plains 
below. 
The deposit was found to abound in Gold, and afforded work for 
fully two thousand men for about a month or six weeks, and it was 
reckoned that at the smallest average, they procured a bunkal 
a month per man. 
The gold was in lumps, and not in dust, and several of the 
lumps weighed from three to four bunkals, and they were rarely 
less than one or two amass in weight. 
This single fact may, in this locality, lead at some future day 
to important conclusions, and I am induced to notice it, as it 
corroborates the statements in Mr Low’s work, and at the same 
time is contrary to the received opinion, and the experience of the 
workings in the Brazils, where gold is rarely to be traced to the 
gold neighbouring mountains. 
Sarawak, 2nd Novr. 1849. n 
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