Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, Numerot 6–10

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Sivu 9 - England are tedious and expensive, can thus be dispensed with. No arsenic or sulphur being mixed with the ore, it need not be roasted before it is placed in the smelting furnace.
Sivu 11 - I must refer to the sketch accompanying my report on the tin of this province recently forwarded, 5. Of the extent of these manganese beds, it is difficult to pronounce. The face of the country in which they are situated is flat, thickly overspread with soil, and with the densest jungle. It is not, as far I could perceive, intersected by many streams, which would afford -1 the means of tracing the mineral deposit.
Sivu 10 - In proceeding down the river I visited these spots, and found at each that a valuable bed of manganese ore existed close to the surface of the country. It had been apparently cut through by the action of the streams and river before mentioned, leaving a. section of the bed of ore in their banks covered only by the debris of the banks themselves. Large quantities might have been carried away, but a few hand specimens only were taken, which sufficiently show the nature of the deposit, and are fair...
Sivu 259 - I should say 70 years ; many known to be upwards of 1 00 years old, reaching a height of 150 feet and a diameter of 5 or 6 feet, are now standing, but they are over-grown and their timber brittle.
Sivu 7 - Kahan itself is the highest portion of a low ridge of hills, not more than 200 feet above the level of the river ; it is composed of a soft, friable, white sandstone rock, the upper portions of which are decomposed and irregular. The surface gravel does not contain tin. It is found in the crystallized form, interspersed in decomposed granite, forming a vein about three feet wide, which is enclosed by the white sandstone rock, and dips down at a high angle with the horizon. Specimen No. 10, if its...
Sivu 42 - After stating that the forests contained extensive supplies of excellent Teak, which had been proved by experiments to be better adapted for gun-carriages than the Teak of Malabar and Java, and that the country afforded very great natural facilities by land and water for transporting the timber to the sea-ports, Dr. Wallich wrote : — " No forest exists which can with propriety be called inexhaustible, — at least none that is liable to constant and extensive demands for timber. The quantity of...
Sivu 84 - I have no hesitation in giving it as my decided opinion that they are the cause of early decay in many Europe-built vessels in India.
Sivu 167 - To encourage them no regulation is wanted, but a free market. Restore the liberty of trade in private wood: let the public be guarded by its ancient protector, not a stranger, but the Collector and Magistrate of the country, and we shall get all the wood the country can yield...
Sivu 20 - Teak is by common consent ranked higher for shiphuilding than Tenasserim or Pegu timber. The cause of its greater durability and power of resisting dry-rot appears to depend chiefly on its more oily or resinous quality, and the greater density arising from its slow growth on the sides of hills.
Sivu 5 - there are at present about 30 furnaces at work for the reduction of the ore into pig iron, or what is here called cuicha iron, and about as many more for refining it, or making it pucka ; the two operations being carried on by totally different sets of people, and, what is curious, by people of different religions, those who re'duce the ore in the first instance being invariably Mussulmen, and the refiners as invariably Hindoos.

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