#638.] Report on the Tenassevim Coal. 701 



" It is elsewhere explained that after the world has heen destroyed by fire seven 

 times, it is once destroyed by water, and after eight destructions by water (seven 

 conflagrations having intervened between each of the deluges making sixty-four 

 destructions) it is once destroyed by wind. From this explanation, when sixty- 

 three kappa have been destroyed, the rotation should arrive for one destruction 

 by water, but the storm-destruction superceding it (the water destruction), in 

 the age of the sixty-fourth kappo, destroys the worlds including- the Subhakinno- 

 brahmaldko." [To be continued.] 



IV. — Report on the Coal discovered in the Tenasserim provinces, by 

 Dr. Helfer, dated Mergui, 23rd May, 1838. 

 1. Five localities of coal have hitherto been discovered in the 

 Tenasserim provinces all situated in the province of Mergui. 



A. On the large Tenasserim river, nine days up from the village 

 of Tenasserim near the creek Nan-their-Khiaung, one and a quarter 

 mile inland; species friable, brown coal intermixed with iron pyrites. 

 Three veins in different localities, tertiary sandstone below, compact 

 sandstone conglomerate interpersed with large silicious fragments 

 above.. — Discovered 17 th March, 1838. 



B. On the large Tenasserim eight days distant from the village 

 of Tenasserim along the banks of the river. Species lignite, light slaty 

 brown coal in veins 3 to 4 inches thick in general, sometimes not more 

 than 2 or 3 lines ; formation tertiary sandstone above and below ; belong- 

 ing to the same system as No. 1. — Discovered 19th March, 1838. 



C. On the Tenasserim above the Tarouk Khiaung, on the right 

 or eastern side of the river five days distant from the village of 

 Tenasserim. Species bituminous shale in large masses protruding 

 above the surface, apparently a distinct system from A or B. — Disco- 

 vered 24th March, 1838. 



D. On the coal river a branch of the little Tenasserim, five days 

 above the village of Tenasserim in a south-east direction ; slaty coal sp. 

 gr. 1.26. A vein 6 feet thick, 240 long with an angle of 20 degrees 

 upwards. A section on the banks of the river. Formation above 

 grey, below black clay slate ; the lowest stratum to judge from the 

 geological features of the country, apparently resting upon blue limestone. 



E. One hour distant from No. 4 or (D) and a continuation of 

 it ; an immense coal field of either slaty or conchoidal pitch coal, 

 highly bituminous without a concomitant of iron pyrites. A succession 

 of fourteen localities where the coal lies bare on clay on both sides of 

 the river, which has evidently forced its way through it ; running at an 

 angle of 25 degrees upwards ; in all places 6 feet or more thick, resting 

 •upon a stratum of slate. — D and E discovered 24th April, 1838. 



2. This last locality being by far the most preferable respecting- 



