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Rh .—Dear Sir,—While reading the Autobiography of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, I met with the following passage in one of her letters, which, as bearing on a most interesting subject at the present time, deserves to be further investigated by those of your readers who reside near the place mentioned, in order to discover the truth of her statement.

In describing her journey from Truro to Falmouth, she says, "Near Gwennap is a place worth seeing, called Carnon Stream Works. Instead of mining for tin, they here direct streams over the sides of the hills, so as to wash down the loose tin, which is here termed 'stream tin.' Here have been found many interesting antiquities,—a pickaxe made of elk's-horn, flint arrow-heads, and human skeletons,—buried beneath several strata (alternately of fresh-water and marine shells), twenty-four feet from the present surface of the ground." This was written in 1825. Yours truly, R. D., Berwick-upon-Tweed.  .—The total shipments of coal foreign and coastwise last year are estimated at 19,161,615 tons, as compared with 18,159,488 tons in 1860, and 17,218,972 tons in 1859. Newcastle last year shipped 1,916,588 tons of coal and 128,773 tons of coke oversea, and 2,345,017 tons of coal and 20,972 tons of coke coastwise; Sunderland, 1,023,495 tons of coal and 39,319 tons of coke oversea, and 1,881,299 tons of coal and 268 tons of coke coastwise; the Hartlepools, 595,674 tons of coal and 18,566 tons of coke oversea, and 1,402,258 tons of coal and 6,508 tons of coke coastwise; Liverpool, 650,106 tons of coal and 9,582 tons of coke oversea; Cardiff, 1,123,557 tons of coal and 5,153 tons of coke oversea, and 880,961 tons of coal and 7,976 tons of coke coastwise; Swansea, 411,377 tons of coal and 1,398 tons of coke oversea, and 190,612 tons of coal, 53 tons of coke, and 51,902 tons of culm coastwise; Newport, 213,585 tons of coal and 22 tons of coke oversea, and 711,225 tons of coal and 2,040 tons of coke coastwise; Shields, 56,589 tons of coal and 2,133 tons of coke oversea, and 23,746 tons of coal coastwise; Blyth, 147,440 tons of coal oversea, and 133,065 tons of coal coastwise; Seaham, 60,837 tons of coal oversea, and 620,465 tons of coal coastwise; Middlesborough, 106,506 tons of coal and 37,159 tons of coke oversea, and 198,958 tons of coal and 3,082 tons of coke coastwise; Hull, 129,849 tons of coal and 422 tons of coke oversea, and 10,262 tons of coal coastwise; Llanelly, 106,376 tons of coal and 4,797 tons of coke oversea, and 262,201 tons of coal and 11,922 tons of culm coastwise; Glasgow, 81,171 tons of coal and 1,542 tons of coke oversea; Port Glasgow, 16,852 tons of coal oversea; Greenock, 65,245 tons of coal and 899 tons of coke oversea; Grangemouth, 71,045 tons of coal and 377 tons of coke oversea; Alloa, 58,635 tons of coal and 37 tons of coke oversea, and 9,334 tons of coal coastwise; Whitehaven, 2,498 tons of coal oversea, and 182,146 tons of coal and 1,203 tons of culm coastwise; Maryport, 374,801 tons of coal and coke coastwise; St. David's, 55,898 tons of coal oversea, and 5,166 tons of coal coastwise; Ardrossan, 35,800 tons of coal oversea, and 79,906 tons of coal coastwise; Charlestown, 60,305 tons of coal oversea, and 53,632 tons of coal coastwise; Inverkeithing, 24,499 tons of coal oversea, and 8,295 tons of coal coastwise; and Borrowstonness, 28,645 ton- of coal and 234 tons of coke oversea, and 53,476 tons of coal coastwise.  .—The phosphatic nodules of the Upper Greensand of Cambridge are well known to geologists from their extensive commercial use in the manufacture of super-phosphate of lime for agricultural purposes. The nodules have been secreted in or around various organic remains, many of which, such as the bones, were often, probably, broken up before the concretion of the phosphatic matter