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A short distance of the section is again obscured^ after which a few 

 •feet of sandstone are re-exposed ; and then the river rushes through a 

 small gorge of thickly- bedded sandstone^ afterwards to flow tranquilly 

 over a sandy channel in which no rocks are visible. 



In the above section we have at least two seams capable of yielding 

 coal. They are very accessible, dip at a favorable angle, and contain 

 fuel of more than average quality. The comparative goodness of the 

 two seams can easily be determined on the spot if occasion require. 

 The one highest in the section contains a greater proportion of coal 

 than the other; but both are sufiiciently large to be profitably won. 

 Whether these beds ought to be worked by open quarry, or from shafts, 

 will depend upon the permanence of any operations vmdertakeu to 

 utilise their fuel. 



In the tributary of the Badmahi which falls into it opposite 

 Gondalpara, there is no well-exposed coal seam. One obscure outcrop 

 only is to be seen. 



West of the Badmahi river for more than three miles, the g-round 

 is too much covered up, to obtain any actual knowledge of the structure 

 of the rocks ; but it may safely be assumed, judging by experience gained 

 in other fields, that the coal seams seen at Gondalpara sweep round by 

 Khapia and Kasiadih. 



That the horizon of the coal is more or less constant throuonhout 

 the whole of the fieldj is a point which I shall assume to be correct. 



Instead, therefore, of indicating the line of outcrops which the seams 

 would probably follow in obscured ground, I shall leave to the common 

 sense of those who may be chargL'd with explorations, the duty of fixing 

 their own positions, giving them as a basis upon which to found their 

 calculations, the strike and dip of the sandstones and shales generally 

 throughout the field, and of the seams of coal wherever exposed. The 

 readers of this memoir will thus be saved the trouble of wading through. 

 a large amount of unnecessary matter; and it willr be enough no\\ to 



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