'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎213] (346/458)

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tion, introducing in the course of these works the use of the
windmill, ft variety of implement promising to be of inestimable value
to us, hut utterly unknown in India. For these ends I obtained a Grant
from Government in 1846 of a space sufficient for the experiment, and
enclosed it with an earthen mound close by the Town Drain, from which
1 proposed to draw water during the rainy season to wash out the salt,
and liquid manure during the rest of the year, with water as might
be required to fertillize the ground. Difficulties presented themselves
in the way for which I jvas not prepared : I was less successful in
the windmill machinery than I had expected ; and the time I could de
vote to these matters was so exceedingly small that nothing conclusive
had been done when it was resolved to admit the sea water into the Town
Drain to carry off the nuisance it occasioned, so as to put an end to all my
expectations of success. The Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. had called for an
account of the Experiments ; the explanations of the source of my ex—
pectations and the grounds of failure could not be made complete
without a Section on the Geology of Bombay. This was forwarded
through Government in Juue 1830. As I had heard nothing of its hav
ing reached its destination, 1 availed myself of the unusual advantages
presented by the droughts of April and May 1851, and the works then
in progress, to correct and enlarge the paper and to cast it into its pre
sent form. My friend, Dr. Henry Carter has, it appears, been meanwhile
engaged in a similar enterprize. I was not aware of his having written
ou the subject till his paper was laid before the Asiatic Society in
December ; and although I have no doubt of its great superiority, in
paleontological and mineralogieal matters to anything I have produced
out he subject, my conviction is that the views we are likely to have taken
are so different that both papers may prove acceptable in the Transac
tions of the different Societies of which we are secretaries, respectively*
His Essay, in all likelihood, deals withscientific and speculative enquiries,
while mine treats of economic Geology. I have been, purposely, as
minute as circumstances permitted, deeming it expedient that everything
in the shape of fact, referring to local phenomena, however trivial,
should be placed on record in the transactions of a local Society ;
leaving the reader, afterwards, to select those things that are important
horn those which may appear more immaterial. To the English reader
will appear singular that, after all, so little should be known of the