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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES, <fec. 
fine fibrous woody structure. Lustre dull resinous approaching 
that of some varieties of lignite. 
Burns like No. 1. 
34. 50 grs. gave 17 grs. of charcoal (including ash) =49. 02 
per cent.; another fragment of 18. grs. gave 8. 75 grs. of charcoal 
— 48. 61 per cent. 
Powder, brown. 
Spec. gray. 1. 28, 
3. Specimen from mainland of Borneo about 20 miles from 
Labuan. Intermediate between 1 and 2 but approaching nearer 
to 2 in fracture, and lustre. 
Burns more readily and with a larger flame than 1 and 2. 
Spec. grav. 1. 28. 
4. Specimen from the N. Point of the island of Formosa, where 
the coal can easily be worked and shipped, and is put on board 
vessels calling at Kelong at 5 per ton, by the inhabitants. 
Structure very irregular in comparison with 1, 2, and 3. uneven, 
devoid of compactness in the mass, readily broken in all directions 
and somewhat crumbling, in some places smooth and in others 
fmelv fibrous. Lustre duller than 2. 
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Burns more readily, aud rapidly, and with a larger flame than 
1, 2, and 3, with bright but not strong jets and intumescence. 
31 grs. gave . 85 = 2 74 per cent, of ash, grey with a very 
slight brownish tinge, 15. 25 grs. gave 7. 75 of charcoal (in- 
eluding ash) or 50. 8 per cent. 
Powder, brown, gives a streak on paper. 
Spec. grav. 1. 27. 
5. Specimen of sandstone bejween two laminoe of coal, abun¬ 
dantly seen on the N. E, Point of Labuan. 
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N. B. The above are merely given as results from frag¬ 
ments of single specimens, and not as the average characters of 
the coal in the different localities, 
IRoek specimen? from Pulo X*adda, Pulo I»ankawi 
and the Mainland between Kidah and Junk- 
ceylon. 
The kindness of Captain Coxgaltox, Commander of the II. C. 
S. Hooghltj , has supplied us with some fine specimens of rocks from 
