16 HUGHES: DALTONGANJ COAL-FIELD. 
The above section of the coal seam No. 4 is exposed a few yards 
inland of the stream in the left bank. The whole of the carbonaceous 
shale (7) was not seen. 
In the nallah immediately east of Pandüa there is an old quarry 
on the Bengal Coal Company's ground. The coal seam here has a small 
dip, and undulating slightly, its out-erop extends for some way down 
the bed of the river. There is no opportunity of measuring it in this 
place, but it appears at the surface near the boundary of the Barákars 
and Talchirs, and is there fully exposed. 
The dip is 14^; and the section 1n descending order is— 
1. Sandstone, yellowish. 
2. Coal seam ۰ Mt dm ad de x ED» MOM 
a. Coal and coaly shale 2 E O 
b. Carbonaceous shale Hr STATUO 
c. Yellow sandstone As Tee Ae 
d. Carbonaceous shale ۳ 0 IO 
To test the quality of this coal, which is about the best im the 
field, I burnt some of it that was stacked near the quarry. It left a 
large quantity of very red ash, did not burn freely, and gave outa 
strong smell of sulphur, so that it cannot rank as a first class coal. In 
justice, however, I must mention that it had been exposed for more than 
five years. 
At a short distance from the quarry, down the river, there is a 
burnt out-crop of carbonaceous matter, and below i$ is a small bed of 
coal. | 
The continuation of the large seam 15' 9" can be traced through 
the jungle, south of Pandtia, to the Sádábah river, where there is a well 
exposed seetion in the left bank, about three quarters of a mile from the 
confluence of the Sádábah and Rajhéra streams. The dip which is 11^, 
and in a northerly direction at this spot, 1s not constant, and changes 
within a distance of a few yards owing to swells. 
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