6 HUGHES: WAKDHA VALLEY COAL FIELD. 



and reaches ; and opposite Telwasa, Ghiigus and Ballarpur, the banks 

 are moderately high. 



Between Suet and Kosara, about six miles before the Wardha passes 



into the coal field, a waterfall occurs, which, 

 Suet waterfall. 



although it does not come within the strict com- 

 pass of this report to describe, deserves mentioning, as being an interesting 

 feature in the scenery of the river. Just above the fall the river bed 

 widens to about 150 or 200 yards, with a shallow rocky channel of lime- 

 stone. The actual drop is small, not being more than 15 to 16 feet in the 

 dry season, so that the element of grandeur is entirely wanting, but the 

 mere noise of the cascade, and the water, snowy white with foam, jost- 

 ling through the gorge at the bottom of the falls*, constitute an attraction 

 which helps to while away a leisure hour. 



The tributaries of the Wardha are all much inferior to it in size 



„ except the Pern Ganga, which forms the 



Pem Ganga. r & ' 



southern boundary of the Berars or Assigned 

 Districts of Haidarabad. It only flows for five miles through the field 

 and exposes no seams of coal, but it is vested with great interest, as 

 having given a local name to the sub-divisions of the Vindhyan series 

 and yielded the section that afforded evidence of ground ice in India 

 during the Talchir period. 



The next stream of most consequence is the Irai, which takes its 

 rise in the trap hills near the coal field of Bandar, 

 and skirting the table-land in which lake Taroba 

 rests, cuts through the sedimentary rocks of the field near Sita- 

 rampet. It exposes Kamthis and Talchirs in its course, and run- 

 ning past the walls of the town of Chanda, joins the Wardha on the left 

 bank, a little to the east of Harasti. 



None of the other tributaries, whether considered merely in reference 

 to size, or as serving to interpret the geological structure of the field, 

 are important enough to call for a special reference. 

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