14 HUGHES: DALTONGANJ COAL-FIÍELD. 
through the rock; texture friable; composition somewhat calcareous 
and micaceous. 
Opposite the village of Katutié, where the Durgáoti makes | 
several sharp bends, two seams of what appears at the out-crops to be only 
carbonaceous shale, occur. Of these the higher in the series is about 
6' thick and the lower 3'. Each seam is too indistinctly exposed 
to say positively what its real thickness is, and whether it contains 
any coal. 
They are both in the same strike as the beds further west near 
Pandáá, which have yielded coal, and, therefore, it will not be surprising 
if m sinking on the seams in the Durgáotí some should be met with. 
The amount of dip is not by any means clear; the inclination, however, 
is small, and does not appear to exceed 5°. The direction is westerly. 
OB He These, which exceed six in number, unite near‏ ی 
Durgáotí. ۱ 1 
Rica the village of Lohra to form one river. 
The most easterly is the Bast nallah. Before entering the main 
assemblage of Barákars, it flows through a small body of that group 
situated west of Saraiá. 'Thereis one bed of coal exposed in its banks 
measuring l' and dipping at an angle of 9° to the north-east. 
Below it occurs clay shale, and above it fine grained sandy sandstone 
tinged slightly with a pink colour. This was the only coal which I 
could find, and I think none other exists, as I searched carefully. 
This little area of Barákars forms a basin of irregular shape, the 
synclinal axis of which passes not far from the northern boundary. 
The general dip of the strata is northwards, and it happens that a 
greater thickness of beds is exposed dipping in that direction than to 
the south; there is, therefore, some ground for suspecting either the 
existence of a fault or attributing to overlapping the want of agree- 
ment in thickness on either side of the axis. The section is not 
clearly seen throughout, and as I met with no actual mechanical evidence 
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