DISCOVERY OF COAL. 
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Honble the Governor. Tama, not Gurbie, is the proper name of 
the Deposit above mentioned. 
JW I, 
This coal is that sort above described as having been chemically 
analysed. My belief is that the specimens of it which were origin¬ 
ally obtained by the Honble Mr. Garling, Resident Councillor at Pi- 
nang, and by myself, were got at a place called Sungei Kamuning 
about sixteen miles above Trang ; because I feel convinced,—after 
my personal examination of the strata there, and the fact that this 
was the spot indicated by the informant but on other information 
than his own, although we could not hit it exactly,—that coal of 
some kind does there exist. Besides the locality where the coal 
was lately got by the Government Gun boat is only about twelve 
miles to the southward of S. Kamuning, or about nearly east of 
Pulo Mutiara or a Pearl Island.” 
Dr. 0‘Shaughnessy’s public Report has been kindly communicated 
to me by the Honble the Governor. [As Dr. (PShaughnessy’s letter 
appears at length, j post p. Colonel Low's extract is omitted.] 
JW 2. 
This coal appears to me to be still superior: if one can judge 
from an imperfect examination: to No 1, or any coal hitherto disco¬ 
vered in this quarter. But it will be tested I hope in Calcutta by 
the same able hand. I obtained this after my return in the Stea¬ 
mer, in June last. From observations made -while on an excursion 
to Purlls last year, I felt persuaded that coal fields lay nearer to 
Penang ^than those of Tama and Trang. An expert native in my 
service, who has been long under training, was despatched to that 
locality and also to Sungei Kamuning. Stormy weather prevented 
his reaching the latter place, but I have been gratified by getting 
from him on his return, specimens of this coal (No 2) found by 
him at the Pulo Tigd Islands, lying off Puifis on the Coast of 
Kbddah. Like those of the other coals as yet discovered the strata 
are covered by the sea at high water. 
Although 1 consider this to he canned coal in most of its pro¬ 
perties, yet it approaches to jet in the darkness of its colour. Its 
cross fracture seems fiat conchoxdal, and it is rather‘brittle. It con- 
