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barges. Owing to its lignitic character, however, the fuel is not 
likely ever to command more than a limited local market. Up 
to the present time no workings on a commercial scale have been 
undertaken. 
Little Tenasserim River — Tsinq Koon. — This locality is 121 miles 
from Mergui and 80 miles from Tenasserim, and is on the frontiers 
of Siam. The seam or seams examined by Dr. Oldham were too 
small to be of any practical value ; the quality, were it not for 
the presence of a certain amount of pyrites, is good. The dip is 
Lenya River — A-tong-wo. — This locality is about 8 miles above 
the Lenya village on the Lenya river, which joins the sea south 
of Mergui. The coal is exposed in the bank of a small tributary 
called the Phlia ; but it unfortunately proved to be only an irregular 
bed varying from 1 foot to 2 feet 6 inches in thickness ; it is 
throughout laminar with thin seams of jetty coal between the 
layers, and very numerous imbedded nodular lumps of a resinous 
amber-like substance. The whole appearance of the rocks suggested 
to Dr. Oldham that they were more modern than those of the 
Tenasserim district. The coal and associated rocks dip at from 
35° to 38°, to between 15° and 30° north of east. The coal ignites 
with son.e difficulty, but retains its shape after the lumps become 
red hot. The amber-like resin causes it to blaze up. It comes 
out of the bed in large solid masses, and if it occurred in abund- 
ance would be a useful fuel for many purposes. 
Henzada. — Coal in this district was reported on by R. Romanis^ 
in 1882, and by M. Stuart ^ in 1910. The best outcrop was 
found near the Shuayning stream at a point 4 miles west-north-west 
of Kywaising, a village 15 miles west of the Irrawadi. An excava- 
tion exposed the following section dipping at an angle of 30° : — 
Coal with four shaly partings . . . . . 6' 8" 
Inferior coal 2' 0" 
Near the village of Hleemouk, 9 miles to the south-west, a 
seam 22 inches thick occurs. The dip is about 45° and the rocks 
are much disturbed. A third locality is near Posogyi on the 
18°. 
Carbonaceous shale 
Good coal 
1' 6" 
2' 0" 
1 Rec., 0. S. I., XV, 178 (1882). 
^ Report on the Geology of Henzada, Rangoon (1911;. 
