GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 
The Daltonganj field hes partly in the valley of the Koel and 
partly in the valley of the Amánat; and extends altogether a distance 
of 50 miles from east to west. 
Its total area is nearly 200 square miles. This statement of its 
size, however, conveys a very erroneous idea of its 
Area. i SMS : 
value as a coal-bearing district, for out of the 
200 miles, scarcely 30 belong to the Damúdá Series. 
The boundaries of the field are very irregular, and for distances of 
۱ considerable length, they are often so obscured 
OR by alluvium that they have been plotted only 
approximately. 
` The most eastern extremity is near the village of Loharsí (which is 
just within the Pal4maun boundary after leaving the Hazáribágh 
district. 
The most western extremity is probably near Chitorpár, a mile or so 
PAPIA beyond the town of Garhwa. I say probably, for 
the map which I had did not extend far enough 
to the west to work out the actual limit of the field. But judging from 
the contracted area of the rocks near Chitorpúr, I suspect that the 
boundary terminates close by that village. 
Hitherto it has been the custom to call this field the Palamaun, (or 
Palamow,) and not the Daltonganj coal-field. "There are, however, many 
coal-bearing areas within the district of Palámaun, and the name conse- 
quently of the Palámaun field as applied to any one of them is not suffi- 
ciently distinctive. 
The designation would be admissable did any coal-measures occur 
near the town of Palámaun ; but that town happens 
ue E to be far distant from any locality in which coal- 
measures exist. 
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