DISTRIBUTION OF THE BARÁKARS. 13 
From Mérál, up the bed of the Jinjoi, to the junction of the Bará- 
kars and Talehírs, there are no signs of coal. The rocks for the most 
part are massively bedded sandstones. They are nearly horizontal, lying 
at the same low angle as the rocks m the neighbourhood of Joudh, 
Sika, and Kumand, so that although the distance from the out-crops 
of coal near Méral to the base of the Barákars south of Nowadíh 
is more than three miles, there is not a large intervening thickness 
of beds. 
At the confluence of the Bankar river with the Jinjoi, there are 
some very typical sandstones of the new variety which characterises 
the Barakars of this area. 
West of the Jinjoi, the country is almost entirely under cultiva- 
tion.* Scarcely any rock appears at the surface; and neither in the 
neighbourhood of Hüráhansá, Bijra, Sakháá, nor that of Kujré, is 
there any sign of coal or carbonaceous shale. 
There is a large quantity of kunkur distributed over this area, 
ready to be utilised when required. 
In the Durgáoti river and its subtributaries there are several 
out-crops of carbonaceous shale and coal. Most of them are of small 
thiekness, but one or two are of importance. 
This river falls into the Koel, below Gadi Khas. Near its mouth 
An and a little inland, about 50 yards from its right 
Duregáotí river. 
bank, two beds of carbonaceous shale appear in 
some fields. The bottom one is 3’ thick, and the other about a foot. 
They both dip to the south at an angle of 10°. 
From Gadi to Katutiá there is nothing but shales and sandstones; 
the latter are of the new type of Barákar sandstones, being false bedded 
and massive; with fine and coarse grained layers irregularly distributed 
* The crops being “chuna” and “ mussooree” dals, 
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