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within two or three months, due mainly to the production of minute crystals 
of copperas from oxidation of the pyrites in the coal. 
Several pits were sunk by Mr. Duke’s orders on the hill side a little above 
the nulla. Coal was obtained in some of these ; it, however, probably belongs to 
the same seams. The strike is very irregular. 
A little below the 2' h" seam there is one of very fair coal; but it is only 
about a foot thick. 
On a low hill north-east of Tsetama, or about a mile and a half east-north- 
,, , „ „ , east from the last locality, the following: section 
North-east of Tsetama. , 
was exposed:— 
Ft. 111. 
Brownish shale, seen . . . .20 
Carbonaceous shale . . . .07 
Brownish gray shale . . . .01 
Carbonaceous shale with some coal . . .07 
Grayish shale, seen . . . .16 
Dip south-30'’-west, at 80°. 
Pallang Boa. 
Near to this there is a spot whore fragments of coal are strewn about, and 
from which, the villagers with me said. Major Williams had dug some coal 
about 30 years ago. His excavation is, however, now filled up, and after several 
attempts I failed to unearth the outcrop. 
In a small stream descending the hill north-east of Pallang Roa, in the 
southern pai-t of Cheduba, three spots were pointed 
out to me about 30 yards apart. In one of these 
was a bed of coal 2' 6" thick, with brownish gray shale above and below it, 
dipping east-20°-south at 40°. It is similar in appearance to the brittle coal at 
Tsetama. In the second spot there was merely a few inches of carbonaceous 
shale, and in the third two or three feet of a more recent sandstone containing 
angular fragments of coal similar to that in the 2' G" seam. 
Discoveries of coal have also been reported from more than one locality else- 
South of Pa'^oda Hill. whore. Thus Captain Halsted in 1841 described 
a seam which occurs less than a mile from the beach 
to the south of Pagoda Hill. It dipped at a high angle and was three and a half 
feet thick, but appears to have been carbonaceous sandstone rather than coal. 
Captain Halsted “could not make it igi:ite, it only smouldered.”' 
Coal was also reported from near Kyaiik Phyu in 1833, and some excavations 
made to expose the outcrops. One seam is described 
as being nearly vortical, from six inches to a foot 
in thickness, and as containing much j^yrites. Coal was found in one or two' 
other jdaces also in small quantity, but the descriptions given lead one to suspect 
that it was nothing more than carbonized sterns.^ 
A spot was pointed out to me at the north-west corner of Tongreh Island 
(about 10 miles north-cast of Kyauk Phyu), from which some black stuff had 
It had been dug from an irrregular bed, three to six feet thick, of 
Near Kyauk Phyu, 
been brought. 
’ .roiirn. As. Soc., Bengal, X, 444. 
2 Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, 11, 595; X, 144. 
