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specimens were received from eight different places, all of which I went to. 
The coal at five of them, however {viz., Pharnngjnan Island, about 10 miles 
north-east of Kyauk Phyu, Then Chaung, Kangautau, Thitpoktaung and Sengu), 
turned out to consist merely of lenticular nests of lignite, or of stems, partly 
carbonized and partly silicified, such as have been described in the foregoing paper 
(p. 191). As soni'ces of fuel they are of course perfectly useless, and do not need 
any further remark. The coal at Tsetama, and near Pallang Eoa in Cheduba was 
found to occur in true beds. As I have already briefly sketched the geological 
character of the Ramri strata, I may here proceed at once to describe the 
coal itself. 
The locality where the best seams, hitherto found, outcrop is rather less than 
West of Tsetami ^ west-10°-north of Tsetama village. In the 
bed of a small nulla, at a spot some 30 feet above the 
foot of a range of hills, which are a few hundred feet high, and composed of 
sandstone and shale, the following section (given in descending order), was 
exposed by digging:— 
Ft. 
3 
6 
1 
In. 
0 
0 
6 
Gray shale, seen ..... 
Coal, with two or three thin partings of carbonaceous shale 
Brown shale, seen ..... 
Dip 8outh-20°-west, at about 50.“ 
Fifteen yards lower down the nulla there is another outcrop, of which the 
section is as follows :— 
Ft. 
Shaly sandstone, seen , . . .3 
Shaly coal 
Carbonaceous shale 
Coal 
Carbonaceous shale 
Coal 
Gray shale, seen 
Coal in seam 
Carbonaceous shale 
0 
0 
0 
0 
1 
2 
In. 
0 
8 
1 
4 
3 
1 
0 
Thickness of scam . 
Dip west, at 50°. 
The coal in both seams is somewhat shaly looking as a whole, although some 
layers are much better than others. It is strongly laminated ; and this, combined 
with jointing, causes most of it to break up small. The greater portion cannot 
be extracted in lumps. Some improvement in this respect might, however, be 
hoped for at a greater depth, with respect to freshly raised coal, but such coal 
would probably not admit of storage for any length of time without deterioration. 
The above outcrops remind one much of those of the inferior coal scams in 
Upper Assam, which there is some reason to believe are of the same age. I 
have shown in another reporU that some of the coal there when freshly raised 
from a moderate depth is hard and firm, but falls to pieces after being exposed 
for a time. The specimens sent by Mr. Savage underwent a similar deterioration 
> Mem. G. S. I,, XU, 346, 
