116 Correspondence. 



informed the head natives in the neighbourhood of the value to them- 

 selves and others should they succeed in the discovery of it in the interior 

 part of the island of Ramree. 



From the same, dated Ntth March. 



1. In November 1840, Lieut. Colonel Hervey sent some natives to 

 Cap island, two or three miles to the S. W. of the mouth of the above 

 harbour, to procure him some coal, having from previous inquiry ascer- 

 tained from them that it was to be found there ; they succeeded in pro- 

 curing a few large lumps, and on subsequently going there himself, 

 brought away about a ton of coal, procured by digging near the water's 

 edge for it. 



2. This island is about two miles from, and runs parallel with, the 

 Saddle island, the strata of sandstone extending in a north and by west 

 direction. 



3. The rocks called the Terribles, about ten miles more to the west- 

 ward, appear to run in the same direction, these parallel ridges extending 

 northerly would run into Combermere Bay, southerly would intersect 

 the island of Cheduba. 



4. At the westernmost extreme of the island of Ramree a ridge of 

 sandstone stretching at a right angle with these is gradually submerged ; 

 its extent could be easily ascertained by soundings on a calm day. 



5. From part of the coal on the Cap pointing towards the nearest 

 point of land on tbe Island of Ramree, Colonel Hervey went to that 

 place on the 10th February 1841, and succeeded immediately in detect- 

 ing the same slate-coloured soil as that in which he found the coal 

 lying on the Cap island, and after digging to the depth of three feet 

 found good crystalline coal, equal to that I forwarded last month. 



6. A hill about a quarter of a mile in extent, and 250 or 300 feet in 

 height, extends in an easterly direction from this point of land, which 

 I have denominated Cap Point. 



7. Oblong masses of hard brown-coloured sandstone rock runs along 

 the southern base and side of this hill ; the northern face is more exposed 

 from an upheaving or sinking of the soil, and exhibits the roots of some 

 of the forest trees with which the hill is covered ; the soil here, as far as 

 is exposed is sandy, and in a slight nullah near by, shingle is seen to the 

 depth of three or four feet. 



8. Extending his research a few days after nearer the base of this 

 hill than at first, which was just at the water's edge, the coal was again 

 met with. 



