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1838.] “It is elsewhere explained that after the world has been destroed byfte .evea times, It Is once destroyed by water, ad after eight destructions by water (seven eonlagrationa having intervened between each of the deluges making sIxty-tox destructions) It is once destroyed by wind. From this explanation, when sixty. three kappa have becu destroyed, the rotation should arrive for oae destructIon by water, but the storm-destruction superceding it (the water.destruction), in the age of the sixty.tourth kappo, destroys the world.. including the Subk4iszo. brohi.oldko.” [To be continued.) -

IV.—Report on the Coal discovered in the Tenasserim provinces, by Dr. HELPER, dated Mergul, 23rd May, 1888.

1. Five localities of coal have hithefto been discovered in the Tenasserim provinces all situated in the province of Meigui.

A. On the large Tenasserirn river, nine days up from the village of Tena.set-im near the creek Nun-their.Kliiaung, one and a quarter mile inland; species friable, brown coal intermixed with iron pyrites. Three veins in different localities, tertiary sandstone below, compact .andstone conglomerate interpersed with large silicious fragments above..—Discovered I 7th March, 1838.

B. On the large Tenasserim eight days distant from the village of Tenasserirn along the banks of the river. Species lignite, light slaty brown coal in veins 3 to 4 inches thick in general, sometimes not more than 2 or 3 lines ; formation tertiary sandstone above and below; belonging to the same system as No. 1.—Discovered 19th March, 1838.

C. On the Tenasserim above the Tarouk Kkiaung, on the right or eastern side of the river five days distant from the village of Tenasserim. Species bituminous shale in large masses protruding above the surface, apparently a distinct system from A or B.—Disco. vered 24th March, 1838.

D. On the coal river a branch of the little Tenasserim, five days above the village of Tenasserim in a south-east direction; alaty coal sp. gr. 1.26. A vein 6 feet thick, 240 long with an angle of 20 degrees upwards. A section on the banks of the river. Formation above grey, below black clay slate; the lowest stratum to judge from the geological features of the country, apparently resting upon blue limestone.

E. One hour distant from No. 4 or (D) and a continuation of it; an inunense coal field of either slaty or conchoidal pitch coal, highly bituminous without a concomitant of iron pyrites. A succession of fourteen localities where the coal lies bare on clay on both sides of the river, which has evidently forced its way through it; running at an angle of 25 degrees upwards; in all places 6 feet or more thick, resting upon a stratum of slate.—D wad - E discovered 24th April, 1838.

2. This ‘lent locality being by far the most preferable respecting