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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XXI.

MINES AND MINERALS.

Indian Iron; Native System of Working,

Failure of Early English Efforts, ....Difficulties of Iron-smelting in India , .

Indian Coal; its Inferior Quality,

History of Coal-mining in Bengal; Coal Statistics,The Four Great Coal Fields; Future of Indian Coal,Salt Manufacture ; the Punjab Salt Range , .Saltpetre; Manufacture of, .

Gold and Gold-mining; the Wainad Quartz Reefs,Copper; Lead ; Tin ; Antimony ; Cobalt,

Petroleum and Mineral Oils, ....Stone; Lime; Kankar; Marble; Slate,

Diamonds; Carnelians ; Rubies; Pearl Fisheries,.

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722

. 722 , 723

723

72 3

• 723-725

725

• 725,726

• 726 , 727. 727 , 728. 728 , 729

• 729 , 73°

• 73 0 ,73i■ 73 1 ,73 2

CHAPTER XXII.

GEOLOGY OF INDIA.

Geology; the Himalayan Region , . . . . .

733, 734

The Lower Himalayas ; Sivvaliks ; Salt Range ,

734, 735

Indo-Gangetic Plain ; its Geological Age and History, .

735, 736

Peninsular India; Vindhyan Rocks, .....

737

Gondwana , Panchet, Talcher , and Damodar Series,

737, 73 8

The Raniganj Coal Seams, .......

739, 74°

Deccan Trap; Laterite, .......

740 , 741

Geology of Burma , ........

741 , 742

CHAPTER XXIII.

METEOROLOGY OF INDIA .

Meteorological Geography; the Eastern and Western Hima-

layas, ..........

743, 744

Air-currents ; Vapour-bearing Winds, .....

744

Punjab Frontier; Indus Plain; the Great Indian Desert,

744, 745