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BALL AND SIMPSON: COALFIELDS OF L\J)1A. 
" nexhaustible beds of uniformly good quality " made use of by the 
Coal Committee. 
In 1841 Captain Tremenheere ^ visited and reported on the 
coal deposits on the Great Tennasserim rivei' at a point 67 miles 
above Mergui. He described in detail the working of the Govern- 
ment coal prospects at Tendau. 
In the year 1855 all the then known localities were either 
visited by Dr. Oldham ^ or conclusive information was obtained 
regarding them. Out of 13 named localities, in five, — namely, 
Bankyop, Tagoo Creek, Banpyai and Manton, on the Great Tennas- 
serim river, and in Tagit Creek on the Little Tennasserim no coal 
exists, — black carbonaceous deposits incapable of supporting com- 
bustion having been mistaken for coal. Out of the remaining 
eight localities two were too remote to be visited, and the occur- 
rence of coal was doubtful. 
In the Manual of the Geology of India, Ball ^ quoting Dr. 
Oldham gives a description of the outcrops at Thoo-hte-Khyoung 
or Thatay Khyoung, Heinlap or Heinlat, and Kan-ma-pying, 
all on the Great Tennasserim river ; and also at Tsing Koon and 
Atong-wo, situated respectively on the Little Tennasserim and 
Lenya rivers. In 1871, Mark Fryar * reported favourably on the 
coal at Tendau, but considered the distance of the deposit from 
markets to be too great for profitable exploitation. 
During the season 1891-92 coal prospecting operations were 
carried on ixnder the direction of T. W. H. Hughes ^ in Kamapying 
on the Htiphanko stream, a tributary of the Great Tennasserim 
river, where a seam of good coal occurs. A year later the whole 
of the coal outcrops on the Great Tennasserim river were ex- 
amined by P. N. Bose, and described by him under the name 
of the Tendau-Kamapying coalfield. The following details are 
abstracted from his report.*^ 
Tendau-Kamapying. — Coal of both Carboniferous and Tertiary 
ages occurs in the Tennasserim valley. The former is the more 
widely distributed, but although it has been repeatedly examined 
1 Cal. Jour. Nat. Hid., U, 417-430 (1842). 
2 Sel. Rcr., Govt. Ind., X, 31 (1856). 
3 Vol. IK, p. 115. 
« O'-ol. papers on Brit. Burma. 418-419, 440, 444-446 (1871-72). 
^ Rec, G. 8. I., XXV, 161 (1892); XXVI, 40 (18931 
« Sfc, Q. 8. I., XXVI, lis (1893). 
