DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OK THE RESPECTIVE COALFIELDS. (57 
the former proved on examination to be lignite in which the woody 
structure was apparent. The assays gave the following results : — 
Water 4-5 50 
Volatile, mattor 37-5 35-8 
Fixed carbon 49-6 52-3 
Ash 8-4 C-9 
100 100 
It is not known where the exact spots were whence these were 
obtained, or whether they occurred in real seams or merely in 
nests, as is not improbable. 
A sample of coal forwarded by the Baronga Oil Co. to England 
for examination by Mr. Redwood, was subjected to destructive 
distillation and yielded 13*74 per cent, of tar and 12-03 per cent, 
of ammoniacal liquor. The sample would not coke and it contained 
8 per cent, of ash. 
Ramri Island. — Although attention has been directed to the car- 
bonaceous deposits of Ramri for many years, only one seam 
giving even a slight promise of containing coal in workable quantity, 
has as yet been discovered. Some ten or a dozen localities might 
be mentioned where at different times hopes were raised that a 
source of fuel would be found. In the majority of cases these 
yielded only lenticular nests of lignite, or, in some instances 
single logs of carbonized wood imbedded in the sandstones ; in 
the others, as at Hung and near Kyaukphyu, the seams Neve too 
thin and too steep to be worked. Under these circumstances 
it is pleasant to be able to quote from Mr. Mallet's report ^ 
his account of a seam or rather seams of slightly more promise, 
but it must be stated that these are unlikely ever to possess 
any very high commercial value. 
The best seams occur less than one mile west-10°-north of the 
village of Tsetama. One seam has a thickness of 6 feet, and the 
other, of 2 feet 5 inches. The dip is 50°. The coal is apt to 
fall to pieces after a short exposure. 
Besides the high dip there is one other circumstance unfavour- 
able to the prospect of the six-foot seam ever proving largely pro- 
ductive, and this is that in the upturned edges of the beds with 
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