80 HUGHES : WARDHA VALLEY COAL-FIELD. 



possibly occur. I believe that by boring to a moderate depth coal might 

 be reached, as the sandstones do not belong to the higher horizons. 



Opposite Arwi are compact quartzose felspathic sandstones with 



scattered grains of quartz and felspar, giving 



ArW1, them a porphyritic look. They weather into mam- 



JZ£5aS£~ ^lary surface,. At the mouth of the Wejgaou 



River, friable, brown-streaked felspathic sandstones 

 like that immediately over the coal at Ghugus occurs. To the south 

 of this there is a fine reach of water, and opposite Suiandi compact 

 sandstones recur. Below them in the series are friable brown sandstones. 

 These rocks are very close to the bottom of the Kamthis, but I have 

 associated with them the grey felspathic silicious slightly calcareous 

 sandstone that flanks the deep pool north west of Lathi, and some that 

 occur a little way farther down the river. A slight change in the direc- 

 tion of the dip is observable, where I have drawn the boundary between 

 the Barakars and the Kamthis to that which obtains at the Lathi- 

 Chicholi ghat ; but, as the intermediate section is not a continuous one, 

 much stress cannot be laid upon such a circumstance. 



The dip of the strata at Lathi is much higher than it is at any 

 other point in the river's course, but I infer nothing from the incident, 

 and merely state it as a fact. As a rule the dips are easy. 



The prospect of proving coal at a moderate depth throughout the 



area of Kamthis embraced between the Wardha 



Prospect of proving d th western boundary of the series in the 



coal. J 



Nizam's Dominions, is a very favorable one, and if 



this division of the field be ever opened up in future years, it will be 



a valuable possession. 



The Kamthis south of Anur rise into high and massive-looking hills, 



having only a slight dip to the south. They 

 Anur fossil plants. . 



consist of sandstones and shales. In some or 

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