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of No. 2 must be selected to prove the seam. The nodular sandstone 

 of the Barakars, is very well exposed at Sakri near the village well, and 

 the circumstance of the coal not being struck in No. 2 borino* shows 

 that the overlap must be considerable. The dip at the well is 7° 

 west-south- west. 



The Barakars extend to Kolgaon, and there cross the Pern Ganga 

 into the Nizam's dominions. The bottom rocks are hard felspathic 

 silicious grits, with very marked nodular weathered surfaces. The dip 

 is 12° at the base of the group, but increases towards the top to as 

 much as 20° and 30°. The upper boundary is somewhat uncertain, but 

 I have carried it west of a small feeder of the Pern Ganga, which flows 

 from Yenak towards Kolgaon. In face of the high dips exhibited by 

 the Barakars, it would be unadvisable to test for coal in this neio-h- 

 bourhood, and as it is questionable whether coal occurs at Takli, the expo- 

 sure of Talchirs at that village, pointing to the probability of a very 

 shallow, or possibly denuded series of measures, the southern limit of the 

 coal lands in the Wun district is proximately on the latitude of Sakri. 

 That the doubt regarding the occurrence of coal might be confined to 

 „„ .. ^ , the area north of Takli, two bore-holes were put 



Takli. No coal. L 



down, one near Takli itself, and the other within 



the Chickli boundary, and in neither was coal found. 



The whole series of borings carried out on this side of the Wardha has 

 now been enumerated, and the existence of coal over a very large area 

 has, unquestionably, been proved. When bore-holes were commenced in 

 anticipation of meeting the workable top coal (such anticipation being 

 based upon sound stratigraphical reasoning), and yet the coal was not 

 actually proved, the indications afforded by the sections were quite enough 

 to show that within a moderate distance of these holes (£ of a mile or 

 so to the deep), coal would have been found; and consequently, in com- 

 puting the productive area, such holes may be accepted as the outer limit 

 marks : for instance, Mukta, Dandgaon, Agasi, Ahiri, Belora and Sakri. 



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