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100 feet tliickj but are gTeatly split up by thiu saudstone bauds. Thege 

 shales rest on red sandstones, and are overlaid by light-coloured sandstone 

 beds ; more shales overlie the latter, becoming flaggy above. A fault 

 brings the whole against the nummulitic limestone; just beneath 

 which some of the uppermost of the dark shales, and some two feet of 

 the coal* are badly exposed. The coal burns with difficulty, giving off 

 much gas and sulphurous fumes. 



Northwards from this locality, on the opposite side of the neck of 

 Sammidri-" buQo-alow, nummulitic limestone, the coaly shales are seen 

 locality. again, near a dilapidated bungalow. Some larger 



openings have been made into them here. In three of these the coaly por- 

 tion was found to differ ; in one, there were three small bands and three or 

 four, 4 to 6-inch strings of coal ; in another, the coal and shale were so 

 blended that the thickness of the former was undefined ; and in the third, 

 the coal was 6 feet thick, but divided almost in the middle by a 7 -inch 

 band of grey shale. The coal weathered away rapidly owing to its sul- 

 phurous character, and some parts of the coal-shale had taken fire and 

 burned red. Just beneath the coal a hard, yellow, slightly calcareous rock, 

 deeply weathered, and blue within, contained some obscure Bivalves and 

 some Rotal'm(2. Underneath these are some coarse reddish and white soft 

 sandstones, which may belong to the same series. The coal seemed here 

 in greater quantity than in the other places in the neighbourhood ; but 

 as the limestone under which it lies is very limited in extent, so also must 

 be the coal. 



Within a mile to the westward there is another locality, where the 



coal-shales and limestone are faulted against hard 

 Mariala. 



grey sandstones, capped by 100 feet of red sand- 

 stone and shales. The cliff in which the coal occurs was inaccessible, 

 the road to the old driving having slipped away, but the entrance to the 

 mine could be seen on the opposite side of a ravine (Plate XVIII2). It 



* The guide who pointed it out ate some spoonfuls of the coal with apparent relish, no 

 doubt regarding it as a medicine, and did not seem the worse during the rest of the day. 



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