, THE MALAY PENINSULA FOR COAL. 353# 
urew were obliged to knock off every ten minutes to bail it out. Al¬ 
ter digging to the depth of seven feet, this clay got so hard that pick 
axes and jumpers made but little impression on it, as it then seemed 
to form into a kind of gray sandstone. Having carefully examined 
this point all round, I found that it is composed, on the east side, 
of Iron stone, sandstone and two small sandy bays. At the 
north end it is composed entirely of layers of gray sandstone, lying 
nearly in every direction of the compass. About 200 yards to the 
southward of the North Point, and on the west side, there is a small 
sandy bay or rather bay of sand and broken shells. This bay extends 
about 300 yards north and south, and at its southern end a ridge of 
sand stone commences in the face of the small hill about 15 feet high 
which, is washed hy the sea at high water. Immediately abreast of 
this sandstone, to the westward, and extending about 200 yards in a 
north and south direction, is a layer of the party coloured flag stones 
before mentioned, underneath which lies the coal imbedded in a 
strong blue clay. After breaking the upper layer of flag stones, 
which is easily done from its being mostly hollow underneath but 
more so in some places then others, the coal is seen, lying in an east 
and west direction, and exactly resembling trees at different distances 
from each other.* On applying pick axes or crow bars it easily give3 
way, breaking off in lengths of from one foot to nearly 20 inches. But 
it is only on the upper part of these apparently fallen trees that coal 
is to be found, varying in thickness from one to three inches. The 
heart of the tree is a mixture of hard stone. But in most of these, 
trees nothing is to be seen in the shape of coal, in the lower part, 
which is nothing but a mixture of blue clay, the same as that which 
. lies under the reddish flags. These trees do not extend down to the 
outer extremity of the rocks at low water, but were only met with 
when the side was at half ebb. It was only on this small space of 
<^200 yards that they were to be seen, and I can with safety state that 
now no more remains on this spot. 
,!t We declared (ante p. 162) that the coal of this locality was lignite and 
. lapidified lignite, and considered u highly bituminous jet” a more appro¬ 
priate mineralogical name than cannel coal for the most inflammable spe¬ 
cimens.—E d, 
