Benares contains 300,000 inhabitants, of which scarcely 150 are Europeans.

It is imbedded in a mass of septaria, weighing upwards of 150 pounds, with two fine specimens of fossil wood; and was obtained in digging for cement stone, about five miles from Harwich, in three fathoms water, where, as a mass of stone, it had been used for some time as a stepping block.

Even after the water has dashed wildly 150 feet downwards, the descent continues.