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close to Musunia, and another a short distance from the village of Taldip, 

 have been opened out, but in neither is there any useful fuel. 



South of the river, in a gorge of the hills between the new and old 



villages of Hurinsingha, there is a considerable 

 Coal at Hurinsingha. 



seam of carbonaceous and coaly shale. At present 



only about the upper ten feet is exposed, and it may be that the lower 



portion contains some good coal ; but the old quarry and galleries on 



the east are now full of water,* and on the west the section is completely 



obscured by fallen masses of rock and debris. 



In the vicinity of the Brahmini river ample evidence is afforded of 



Trap resting on Bara- tlie denudation which took place subsequently to 

 kars> the deposition of the rocks constituting the 



Dubrajpur group, and previous to the outpouring of the basalt. The 

 latter occurs at various levels; sometimes it is found on the tops of the 

 ranges formed of the grits, and again, as in the neighbourhood of Jhikra 

 and Domunpur, there are considerable patches of it resting immediately 

 on the Barakars. 



Proceeding northwards, the next locality at which Barakars are met 

 with is near Gumhra, whence a zone of these rocks of very variable 

 thickness is found cropping from underneath the grits for a distance of 

 about 7 miles. It is necessary, however, to qualify this statement, as much 

 obscurity exists in the sections, and a consequent doubt as to the true 

 position in which the boundary between the grits and the Barakarsf should 

 be represented. 



The section in the Chota Gumani River between Dudhia and 



Chota Gumani River GhaehouraJ is a very peculiar one. About half a 

 section. m jj e wes {. f Dudhia, the river is crossed by a well- 



* I had hoped on the occasion of my second visit in April to find a sensible diminution 

 of the water, but it was then standing within a few inches of its cold-weather level. 



f Of this locality, as well as of a few others in the hills, the map proved to be exces- 

 sively inaccurate. No detailed plotting of the river appeared to have been attempted. 



J These two villages are not given on the atlas sheet, but their positions are respect- 

 ively 4 and 2 miles south-east of Nargunjo. 



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