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you that it will in all probability prove admirably adapted for every 
purpose to which coal is economically applied. It gives off much 
gas and some tar and other liquid products of combustion found in 
"bituminous coal. It contains scarcely any water, an exceedingly 
small proportion of earthy matter, (not more than 1. 33 per cent.), 
and its heating power is probably very considerable. This I have 
not indeed yet had determined accurately, as the analysis for coal 
to determine its economic value is by no means so simple or easy a 
matter as you perhaps suppose. 
It would no doubt coke well, and it might I believe be used 
to great advantage both for steam purposes and for smelting, be¬ 
sides ordinary household purposes. It contains no sulphur. 
(No. 31.) 
From the Governor of P. W. Island Singapore and Malacca, 
To C. Beadon, Esq., Under-Seeretary to the Government of Ben¬ 
gal, Fort William. Dated , Singapore, 27 th February , 1847. 
Sir,—M y letter under date the 26th July 1845, No. 124, will have 
made the Hon’ble the Deputy Governor of Bengal acquainted with 
my belief that Coal was to be found in the vicinity of Penang, and 
although I failed at that time, in discovering the mineral, yet I did 
not relax my inquiries, and I am now enabled to report very satis¬ 
factorily, on the subject. 
On the recent return of the Hon’ble East India Company’s Stea¬ 
mer Hooghly from the Northern end of the Straits, after conveying 
the Hon’ble Recorder, and Court Establishment to Penang, Captain 
Congalton brought me a specimen of Coal which had been deposited 
by some person at the Harbour Master’s Office; search had been 
made for the party without avail, and I apprehended that I should 
be again baffled, when I was favored with a letter, regarding the said 
Coal, by the Resident Councillor at Penang, a copy of which I beg 
to enclose. 
The Hon’ble the Deputy Governor will observe that the Coal now 
discovered, (a specimen of which I beg to forward for the purpose of 
being tested,) is found on the Southern Coast of the Island of Junk 
Ceylon, which is not far from the River Gurbie, on the Malayan Pe¬ 
ninsula, where my former search was made, and if we may judge 
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