b MALLET^ VINDHYAN SERIES. 



On account of statements made to Government by a Mr. Hyland, 



of his having discovered coal near Bijig-urh Fort 

 1837, Mr. Osborne. 



on the Sone, south-south-east of Chimar, 



Mr. Osborne^ of the Opium Department^ was despatched to investigate the 



matter^ who reported"^ that the supposed coal was nothing but black 



shale and perfectly valueless. He examined the neighbom-hood closely, 



and mentions the different rocks seen^ amongst which no trace of coal 



was to be found. 



Dr. J. G. Malcohnson^ writing /On the age of the diamond sandstone 



and argillaceous limestone of Southern India^f' 

 Dr. J. Gr. Malcolmson. . . 



states his conviction that they belong m this res- 

 pect to the " more ancient secondary or even transition rocks,'''' and looks 

 upon them as the same formation as the sandstones and limestones of 

 Bundelkund and Malwa, dissenting from Captain Franklin^s conclusion 

 that the latter rocks represent respectively the new-red and the lias. 



M. Jaquemont, on his journey from Calcutta to Delhi, passed over 



some of the ground which Franklin had previously 



explored. Leaving Mirzapur he ascended first 

 the Tara and then the Kuttra ghat, the beds in which are minutely 

 described. J He found the strata of the latter hill to overhe those 

 of the former, and pointed out the absence of any primitive rocks at the 

 foot of Kuttra ghat, as represented in Franklin-'s section. After travel- 

 lino> some distance from the edge of the second plateau on sandstone, 

 limestone first made its appearance near Mowgunge, resting, apparently, 

 on the sandstone, and containing argillaceous beds interstratified 

 in the lower part. From this town to Rewah similar beds (lime- 

 stone) were seen at intervals, but at Oomree, six miles west-south-west, 

 sandstone (lower Bundau-) again occupied the surface, which, however. 



* Journal Asiatic Society, Bengal, Vol. VII, p. 839. 



t Geol. Trans. Lond., 2nd Series, Vol. V, p. 568. 



X Voyages dans I'lnde pendant les annees, 1828-32, Tome 1, p. 374. 



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