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On heating, it burns with a pi di deal of flame but does not cake, 
so that the po formed by it is in detached lumps, of the size and 
gun of the original pieces of coal before 6, On distillation in 
retort it yields a considerable amount of gas of good illuminating 
power, and only traces of sulphur 
A commercial analysis gave the We figures :— 
ixed carbon— i.e., weight of coke less ash .., 49.06 
Volatile matters <. e., gas, tar, etc. ids 43.80 
Ash wes vés А vee 7.14 
100.00 
The "n results indicate a coal of very fair quality, that could be `. 
used for steam boilers and also for gas making, while its toughness 
and haie show that it will stand transport well. 
me years ago Sir W. Н. Treacher, x.c.m.c., presented to the 
Museum a sample of coal from cem Although it 1s of very inferior 
quality, containing a large percentage of ash and much sulphide of 
iron, there is a certain vom lide. between the two samples. 
In y de I visited Upper Perak, and took the opportunity of going 
to see Mr. Pasley's mine. It is situated in the small valley of the 
Ayer Jeddah, a tributary of the Ke turus about dodi and a half miles 
from Kuala Kenering. The mine-hole where the coal was said to have 
ash- : 
‘hich have been found, were, on the other hand, all sharp and angular 
and show no signs of having travelled. Beyond the fact that granitic 
rocks ap in the bed of the stream and that the hill on the western 
side of the valley is composed of some stratified rock, there is nothing 
to be made out; and until some prospecting work is done it would be 
unwise to hazard any conjectures respecting this interesting discovery. 
REPORT ON THE PERAK MUSEUM, 1903. 
GROUNDS. 
[mE large ditch at the back of the Museum grounds was straight- 
ened and in part the sides were walled up. 2 new culvert was 
built across Museum Road to take the water by short cut into the 
the Treacher Girls’ ‘choo 
