146 HUGHES : WARDHA VALLEY COAL-FIELD. 



The name Bandar having already been adopted in several reports and 

 memoranda to distinguish the measures thus prov- 

 ed to occur, I propose retaining it as the title of the 

 coal-field, and shall consequently refer to this basin as the Bandar Coal-field. 

 The village of Bandar in 1873 consisted of only a few houses; but 

 there is a fine tank near it, and a small hill to the immediate north of 

 it — two features that characterise it amongst the other villages of the 

 field. It is on the highway of traffic between the town of Chimmur and 

 those of Warora and Hinganghat, and being an important watering 

 place during the warm season for the large droves of cattle belonging 

 to the Banjari grain-carriers, is better and more widely known than its 

 size as a village would lead one to suppose. It is 

 situated 5 miles west of Chimmitr, 26 miles north- 

 west of Warora, and 30 miles east of Hinganghat, in latitude 20° 31 'N., 

 longitude 79° 21 E. 



There are no hills and no rivers of any magnitude within the limits 

 of the Bandar coal-field. Its surface, however, is 

 of size 1 S an n ° UVer covered with a fair amount of forest, and there 

 is an exuberance of coarse grass. 

 The true coal measures (Barakars) occupy only a very restricted sur- 

 face area, which I estimate at about five to six 

 square miles, but the total extent of the basin, if the 

 Talchir group be included within its limits, will be far more. Unlike 

 the distribution, however, in other basins, the Talchir rocks here are 

 entirely outside the coal-bearing portion of the field, and except for the 

 connection existing between them and the Barakars, as groups of the 

 Gondwana series, I should have restricted the name Bandar coal-field 

 to the area marked out by the extreme margin of the newer deposits. 

 If we combine the limits of the Talchir formation with those of the 

 other groups, it will be seen by looking at the map 

 that the shape of the basin is roughly that of a 

 parallelogram, the major axis lying N.W. — S.F. 

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