1833.] Note on the Khytik Phyt Coal. 595 
property may often be of great service in wounds or sores, accompanied 
with inflammation, which it is desirable to abate. 
The quantity of the concrete oil that may be obtained from the 
seeds may be taken at about one-tenth. From 3 lb. avoirdupois or 3,500 
grs. of the seeds, I obtained 360 grs. of the concrete oil in a moderate- 
ly pure state. The above is somewhat more than 1-10th; and with 
better management, the product might perhaps be greater. It requires 
however long-continued boiling to extract it, and it is still more tedious 
to purify it from the fibrous matter of the seeds. 
Western Ghauts, 25th September, 1833. Ne Noli 
1X.—Note on the Coal discovered at Khytk Phyu, in the Arracan District. 
[Read 30th October, 1833.] 
Lieut. Fonzy has been most active in investigating the mineral 
resources of this almost impenetrable country, where swamps and 
jungles of the worst description render it hazardous to reside, while they 
hide for the most part the features by which a geologist is enabled 
to direct his researches. 
The seam of coal discovered at Syneg Kyong, as shewn in Captain 
Marerave’s sketch, Plate XIX. Fig. 3. is most conveniently situated for 
exportation, should it turn out abundant, and of good quality. The Oong 
Kyong* creek (reed-nala) falls into Khywik Phyé harbour, just be- 
yond the anchorage of the ships, and the nala itself is deep enough 
for all small vessels. The following description of the place is extracted 
from a note by Captain Marcrave. 
“«*The hill towards the creek describes the segment of a circle, is 
very steep, and no more I think than 50 or 60 feet from the sea level ; 
the soil is sand and clay, variously proportioned, of grey, yellow, and 
sometimes a reddish colour, resting apparently on coarse grey sand- 
stone. It is isolated by the spring-tide, whose fall leaves exposed a 
flat level ledge of rock, (extending some 70 yards or more N. W. of 
the hill,) composed of grey sandstone with a brick-red tinge on the 
surface, particularly near the edges of the blocks and fissures. This 
sandstone seemed to me to disappear under the hill, for on the other 
side I found precisely similar stone in fragments, but not the same per- 
fectly horizontal bed. The vein of coal runs about E. and W. (along 
the line DB) across the southern part of the ledge; at B is the pit 
sunk by Lieut. Fotry, 3 or 4 feet deep, on a former visit: at A and 
C are the smaller excavations whence came the best specimens of ore 
andcoal. The vein is not straight, however, but rather serpentine, or 
* In the plate this has been called Syneg-kyong by mistake.—Ep. 
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