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BOIL, COLLIERIEB. 177ùnder this heâd here is wonderful; mostly calcareous: manneeltuviœ ready to teem once again into life on the sligbtest encourage;..ment.Every bank which presents a southern aspect, even in the depthof winter, iscovered with spiral sheHs.'Vherever a fire is kindled on awaste, the site ofit isforthwithc~)Veredin like manner.'J'he oystertribe (unopened),andotherkindsnot now known toexist, constitllte the, 'principal mass Qr subsoiI. Awhale's bone was found in sinking a weIlin the town.Bones of quadrupeds, whioh have undergone the processof the alluvial convulsion, present themselves, protruding to the mostcUrsory eye.Here is sorne pure sand, and in it bedded calcareous lamilflttffifoundto::côntain marineeœuviœ,often in manyalternate strata,marking the wash of waters, the action and re~action. '-fhis sand, too,bas in its pJ.'Ocess pl~oduced .··iwll",stone in·· smaIl quantity. Breocia isseen in the neighbourhood, and. vast masses of calcareous rock.rfh~red~arbleused.nereis of the greatestbeauty, boasting a richer tingethanporphyry, and equally deep; often in the entire piece, withouttheslightest admixtnre of other colour.day, yellow andhlué.:Marl appears; a180 poUer'sThe collieries of this part of the world are at Alais, in the mountains,. a tractofth'emostimportamt, interest. The coals do not contain muchsulphur, hUTn slowly, apcl cast off a goodcinderwhich burns again, apda little white,ashes.They are'Veryshiningwhen broken, ~nd havenotmnch bitumen.-···Quicksilver lla8 been found in the earth by sinking ahole in a garden, and in the streets of the town alter rain. We mustnot, ho,vevet, forgetthat somethingof the samekind has heen di8COveredto h~ve pre~ented,itselfe1sewherefrom a cause that would not beexpected.C~rdinalFleury worked a gold~mineworld, but it did not l'equite the cost.VOL. II.2Aon. his estate in this part of theHis observation was, that,