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  THEOBALD 
  : 
  GEOLOGY 
  OE 
  PEGU. 
  

  

  Coal. 
  — 
  Enough 
  has 
  been 
  previously 
  said 
  regarding 
  the 
  Thaiet-mio 
  

   coal, 
  to 
  show 
  its 
  trifling 
  economic 
  value, 
  and 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  defects 
  and 
  

   objections 
  will 
  probably 
  be 
  found 
  to 
  apply 
  to 
  auy 
  other 
  outcrops 
  of 
  the 
  

   mineral, 
  found 
  at 
  any 
  future 
  time 
  in 
  the 
  province. 
  The 
  main 
  objection 
  

   which 
  would 
  seem 
  to 
  be 
  inherent 
  in 
  these 
  Nummulitic 
  coals, 
  is 
  their 
  great 
  

   irregularity, 
  not 
  only 
  as 
  regards 
  the 
  thickness 
  of 
  the 
  seam, 
  but 
  as 
  regards 
  

   its 
  quality 
  also, 
  and 
  this 
  it 
  is 
  reasonable 
  to 
  suppose 
  to 
  be 
  largely 
  due 
  to 
  

   the 
  different 
  conditions 
  under 
  which 
  these 
  coals 
  have 
  been 
  deposited, 
  and 
  

   under 
  which 
  the 
  ordinary 
  workable 
  coals 
  of 
  commerce 
  have 
  originated. 
  

   Another 
  of 
  these 
  worthless 
  fuels 
  occurs 
  near 
  the 
  village 
  of 
  Chouk-kalah, 
  

   on 
  the 
  Mu 
  stream, 
  three 
  miles 
  South 
  of 
  Tham-baya-deing 
  boundary 
  

   pillar. 
  This 
  coal 
  was 
  first 
  discovered 
  in 
  a 
  cart-track 
  through 
  the 
  jungle* 
  

   where 
  the 
  black 
  color 
  of 
  the 
  pulverised 
  rock 
  attracted 
  attention. 
  It 
  is, 
  

   however, 
  better 
  seen 
  in 
  a 
  stream 
  not 
  far 
  off, 
  where 
  it 
  is 
  seen 
  to 
  dip 
  at 
  70° 
  

   to 
  East-by-north. 
  It 
  is 
  in 
  fact, 
  however, 
  a 
  bed 
  of 
  carbonaceous 
  shale, 
  

   containing 
  a 
  one 
  foot 
  seam 
  of 
  hard 
  bright 
  coal, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  stringy 
  seams 
  

   which 
  may 
  make 
  in 
  all 
  a 
  thickness 
  of 
  coal 
  of 
  eighteen 
  inches, 
  an 
  

   amount 
  quite 
  useless 
  for 
  extraction 
  even 
  were 
  it 
  more 
  favorably 
  situated 
  

   than 
  it 
  is, 
  it 
  being 
  over 
  thirty 
  miles 
  from 
  the 
  Irrawadi 
  river, 
  where 
  

   it 
  would 
  have 
  to 
  be 
  taken 
  to. 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  actual 
  seams 
  of 
  coal, 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  sandstones 
  contain 
  

   carbonised 
  trunks 
  of 
  trees, 
  from 
  which 
  specimens 
  of 
  lignite 
  might 
  be 
  

   procured, 
  very 
  likely 
  to 
  lead 
  to 
  fallacious 
  hopes 
  in 
  district 
  officers, 
  san- 
  

   guine 
  and 
  anxious 
  for 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  a 
  good 
  fuel. 
  Such 
  would 
  seem 
  

   to 
  be 
  tl 
  3 
  origin 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  coal 
  said 
  to 
  occur 
  near 
  Dalhousie, 
  at 
  the 
  

   mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Bassein 
  river, 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  testimony 
  of 
  my 
  colleague 
  

   Mr. 
  W. 
  Blanford 
  ; 
  and 
  similar 
  traces 
  of 
  lignite 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  noticed 
  iu 
  

   the 
  sandstone 
  beds 
  in 
  the 
  Shu 
  stream 
  above 
  Sabatan, 
  but 
  the 
  economic 
  

   value 
  of 
  such 
  indications 
  is 
  nil. 
  

  

  Undoubtedly, 
  were 
  the 
  lignite 
  in 
  good 
  quantity, 
  in 
  pyritous 
  shales, 
  as 
  

   under 
  the 
  Nummulitic 
  beds, 
  across 
  the 
  Indus 
  near 
  Kotki, 
  alum 
  might 
  

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