368 Coal on the north side 



notes, and had no description to refer to. So far ; but I will not 

 weary you any more, if you require any more information than is 

 found in the list, I shall be happy to afford it if possible. In justice 

 to myself, I ought to tell you, that all my collections have been made 

 entirely at my own expence. 



Golahghat, 1st October, 1846. 



Further Discoveries of Coal on the Northern side 



of Assam. 



Extract of a letter from Major Jenkins, dated \7th October, 1846. 



The discovery of the vein of coal by Dalton is likely to lead to 

 more discoveries, in the same quarter, of this precious mineral : how- 

 ever, I can hardly call ours precious as yet, as we are not able to turn 

 it to any account, but these great deposits will surely be of local use 

 by and bye. 



Vetch writes to me under date the 7th instant — 



" I have just got in some most beautiful specimens of coal from a 

 stream on the north bank, where I put some people to look out for 

 it ; this stream is a day's journey above that in which Dalton dis- 

 covered coal. I have also got information of its being in the Seesee 

 river, but I cannot go just now." 



These two streams will be east and west of Dalton' s locality, so that 

 it is all but certain there are as large deposits on the north as the 

 south bank. 



Extract of a letter from Copt. Vetch, Political Agent, to Major 

 Jenkins, Commissioner. Bebroo Ghur, 22nd October, 1846. 



I have returned from my trip to Sudeya, Suckwah, and the country 

 along the Booree Sootee, and have now the pleasure to send you 

 some specimens of coal obtained from a low hill adjoining the 

 plains, within a very short distance of the banks of the Dakaroo, a 

 pretty hill stream, which flows from the Abor country into the 

 Booree Sootee. 



