74 HUGHES : WARDHA VALLEY COAL-FIELD. 



The beautiful impressions of fern leaves from Isapur were obtained 



in quarries north-east of the village, where the 

 Isapur fossil plants. 



white and pink homogeneous, argillaceous sand- 

 stone is worked, which the skilled masons of Chanda carve into very 

 minute forms of ornament. 



Wun District. 

 On the Wun side of the Wardha, the most northerly exposure of 

 the Kamthis is at Zagra, where coal was struck by Mr. Smyth at 50' 8* 

 from the surface. It is cut off to the south by trap. Small inliers occur 

 at Dandgaon, and there can be little doubt of the extension of the series 

 under the trap of Miikta and Apti. A broad wedge of Vindhyan lime- 

 stones forms the barrier of the field south of Masandra, and extends as 

 far as Parsora. Here the limestones are lost, and the strip of Barakars and 

 Kamthis comes in, which stretches to the north-west, towards Pisgaon 

 and Papiir. The Kamthis pass under the trap near the last-mentioned 

 village. Their strike is north-west, south-east, and in the hope of finding 



coal in the direction thus indicated, a boring was 

 Mangli bore-hole. 



commenced at Mangli near Sindi. As was before 



explained, however, the tools available were not suitable for cutting such 



tough material as trap, and the attempt was unsuccessful. 



Only the lower sandstones are exposed in the strip of Kamthis from 



Papiir to Parsora. They are of the type described 

 Sandstones soft when 

 first quarried, and harden in the descriptive summary, as soft, open sand- 

 afterwards. ... 



stones. They are only soft, however, when m situ. 

 After having been quarried and dressed, they become quite hard. The 

 colors are very intense in the vicinity of Parsora, and the deep red and 

 yellow of the samples brought up in No. 1 bore-hole was a noteworthy 

 feature. 



Red clays are associated with the sandstones, but they do not appear 



to be continuous on the same horizon, the height 

 Red clays. 



at which they occur varying from 150 to 200 feet 



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