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Raw Materials.

Class I.— Mineral Products .

Iron stone, iron, and iron ores, of many varieties, fromvarious parts of India and of Central Asia.

Indian Iron & Steel Company, Beypore, nearCalicut, Malabar, and at Porto Novo, near Cuddalore, Car-natic. Office in London, 10a King's Arms Yard, MoorgateSt. Prod. Mann, and Imp.

Specimens of the ores and charcoal used, &c.: as magneticoxide; crystals of the magnetic ore ; ore as prepared for theblastfurnace; argillaceous iron-stone; charcoal used in themanufacture ; pig-iron from the blast furnace, and refined;annealed castings made from the pig; chain 5-lGths, castentire in links; round bar to show surface and polish; flierused in worsted spinning, hitherto made only of wroughtiron; springs of sorts, all of the cast-iron.

Specimens of the wrought-iron: of bars and rods frac-tured ; of worked and twisted cold; iron drawn into wire.

Bar-iron for steel purposes: bar-steel; cast-steel ingot,showing its colour and crystallization; cast-steel drawn tosizes ; files, saws, chisels, gouges, and plane-irons.

Table knives and carvers; razors, scissors, and knives,fine cutlery; sword blade.

From these magnetic ores of iron the “ Wootz,” or Indiansteel, is made by the natives; also malleable iron by thedirect process.

Specimens of chrome ore; of the chromate and bichromateof potash manufactured from this ore.

Saltpetre of Maganore and Errode; corundum chro-mate of iron; carbonate of magnesia; iron ore; cut-ties, or blooms of iron ; palms, or bars of iron ; vuttoms,or pieces of cast steel, as it came from the clay crucible;ollies, or bars, drawn out from clay crucibles; small bagof iron beads which ooze out from the blooms in the blastfurnaces ; steel made from the blooms in the same kind ofblast furnace, and used in making edged tools—from Salem.—G. F. Fischer, Esq.

Primitive marble; serpentine marble; primitive lime-stone; red and yellow jasper; pudding stone; jasper; brownjasper; fossil woods ; plastic, yellow, and slate-colouredclays; white Kaolin earth; soap-stone for stills; whiteKaolin earth ; fossil wood; Kashning garnets in serpentine,used for making pots and pans; goldwasher’s sand; petro-leum, and Menamet oil; iron sand ; iron-sand clay.—Mapor Hannay, from Assam.

Strings of Nimluck l>eads; plain and diamond-cut cor-nelian ; greenstone and mother-of-pearl beads; mother-of-pearl buckle; block stone earring drops; large and smallpieces of crystal; cornelians for brooches; stones for clasps;bloodstones; gowries; large and small amethysts; largeand small emeralds; r&jawahs; assorted stones; ferozahs ;sapphires; cat’a-eyes ; garnets ; romarooks , salemon stone;blue-stone ; turquoises.— From the Lapidaries of Calcutta.

Mergui coal; limestone ; iron ore; manganese; tremen,herite; alabaster; petroleum; lead and copper ore; agatecornelian, and calcedony ; Ava gem sand ; tin ore, first andsecond washing; antimony ore- from Teunsscnm Province.

Iron ore, two sorts; limestone, two sorts; specimens ofiron ore, smelted iron, and pig iron— from Mirznpore.

Sulnhuret of antimony; pearl ash prepared irom nitreand charcoal, two sorts.—Madras.

Carbonate of soda, nearly pure, prepared from Dhoby’Sor Washerman’s earth.

Iron ore, the bisulphuret embe'dded in stone; soda—fromCuddapah.

Marble slabs from Bellary; bricks made of white clay?marble mortar, rough—from the Ceded District.

Hone stone from Toongbudra River—from Kurnool.

Lithographic stones—from Kurnool, Juggiapctlah,Datchapilly.

Silver box of gold-dust, villages of Kapoo and Nclaifl'boor in Ernaak.—from Calicut, and Wynaad.

Iron ore, magnetic; salt Nowpadah pans—from Yiz fl "

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Copper ore; bell metal; soda, carbonate of—from Bellary*

Salt produced by periodical inundation of sea over 11sandy plain, collected into heaps after evaporation—Iren 1Coombaconum.—Madras.

Potash, from Lahore. Bottle containing Boctan ro<>salt.

Antimony, calamine, pyrites, copper, and coiner ores.

Copper ore and raw copper, and load and lead ores, fro 1 * 1Nepal. Lead, superior, from Shockpoor. Plumbum ; ^ore: tin; gold dust.—Singapore.

Chromate of iron. Specimens of bell metal and powt frfrom Bellary and Nepal. Moss and other agates, from th&Nerbudda, Kane, Soane, and other rivers. Pebbles, fr 0 *?Soane River. Blood stones; chitta hindnoc, piebald ° >spotted; Grass stone; lapis lazuli; cornelian and on)*’jasper and marble—from Bombay and Bengal. .

Coal of various kinds; lignite; petroleum; resin 0 'earths; chalcedony; sulphur; salt; and other minetfd^serpentine, from various localities in the peninsulaIndia, and the Presidency of Bengal, fcc.; Roda and 1carbonates; nitrate of potash; pearl-ash; magnesia;petre; steatite; lithographic slates; alum; corundum (*/]! jMalabar); talc; pipe-clay; talc, petrifactions and pntnt*woods; magnesia, and other earths; a plate of stone* 1 rjasper, three of agate, two of green marble ; two cupsj ,lf d ,jagate, two of brecciatcd agate ; two pestles and mortars, °two of jasper agate; six squares of the above, threeand three rough blocks—from .lessclmere ; six varieties*^eluding rock and rose crystals, quartz, amethysts, flint,"and pink sandstone; soapstones; potstones; coruijdnni;"felspar; calcareous, icy, cube, and other spars, and fl’^l ^

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gypsum: selenite; iron flint; pipe-cluy; y°“V ' ptciother clays; light and red marls; lifhonmrgc; hy* 1 c(l rgreen stone; Venetian talc; salt, raw nod refined t y fbonatc of potash; marbles- yellow', white, green, IV u ^{j„ic slavender, wax, and purplish coloured ; dolomite lin] oS . flrl dporphyriticrocks; granites white, flesh-coloured, yvgTcy; micaceous rocks, silex, basalts, slates, aboutrietfes in all; together with specimens of hyacinth?and blue sapphires, garnets, and other stones; <* ^jiiibreccia; beryl; schorl; jasper; cat’s-eye; n n ft * 'fj fi u^’amethysts; rock crystal; orwils ; eale.edonics; co11 * .mef;onyxes; bloodstones, fce.; Black, grey, ami P rc( ] n ()X i<lo °\purple copper ore, and malachite; tin; umher, or •manganese; galena (sulpburet of lend]); chroma oiron sand ; compact black and sherry ironstone, a* .j jjiidlimestone; oolite, pure stone coloured; hipw ' . c5 u*Bombay preparations of ultra-marine lrom it,various kinds; plumbago ; almninc.