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escaped detection, a statement that I cannot make so confidently with 

 regard to any of the other series in the field. 



Further, as the interest in the coal-measures is more intimately con- 

 nected with the history of the borings than with the mere enumeration 

 of localities in which unproductive Barakars rise to the surface, I shall 

 particularise the bore-holes; and in grouping my remarks, will first de- 

 scribe the results attained in the Chanda district, then those obtained in 

 the Wun district, and lastly those in the Nizam's dominions. 



In the progressive discovery of the thick coal, no borings were started 

 in Barakars (by the Survey), after the experience of the first few trials 

 showed that it invariably occurred at or near the top of the measures 

 and that it was usually over-lapped. 



To find the coal with some degree of certainty, the bore-holes were 

 commenced in the Kamthis, or other overlying series. Most of the 

 positions in the Wun district, a few in the Nizam's dominions, and some 

 in the Chanda district, were indicated by the Survey : the rest were chosen 

 by the various officers of the Central Provinces, who from time to time 

 were in charge of the collieries at Ghugus and Waroraj by Mr. Smvth 

 Assistant Superintendent of the Government trial pits at Pisgaon; and by 

 the Superintendents of His Highness the Nizam's boring establishments 

 at Sasti and Rajur. 



Chanda District. 

 The most northerly outcrop of Barakars in the Chanda district, and indeed 

 in the whole field, is in the Lalghat river where 



Lalghat river. . ° vvjacie 



it flows between the two deserted villages of Bail- 

 gaon and Kandara. The rocks are sandstones dipping low, and the 

 prevalent direction is E. 10° N. Near the boundary of the Kamthis 

 however, it is almost due north. An attempt to prove coal in this locality 

 was made by Mr. Fryar, who selected two sites for bore-holes : one near 

 the junction of the Atmurdih and Lalghat rivers, and another on the 

 left bank of the former stream. These were not successful, the first one 



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