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much the appearance of being the result of a slip-fault. It has not 

 been opened suflSciently to make this clear. The beds dip slightly 

 r or 2° to the N. N. E. The workings have been carried up towards 

 the out-crop, or on the rise of the coal, and a considerable portion of the 

 coal immediately accessible here has been, I should think, worked 

 out. 



There are also a few small breaks in the coal, up-throws chiefly, 

 shifting it a foot or so. These head with the dip, or direction of inclina- 

 tion of the coal. 



Detached from all these localities, and South and West of the rising 

 ground in the centre of the table-land, are two open crooms or hollows. 

 The one (at / on plan) most Northerly is very small, and at about thirty 

 feet below the surface is a very irregular mass of coal imbedded in 

 sandstone; a fault here passes across the rocks from North-East to 

 South- West, and cuts all off. In the other (at g on plan), still to the 

 South of this, a bed of coal is seen continuing for about one hundred 

 feet, not more than three feet thick, in places not more than one. It is 

 poor coal ; the roof is of sandstone, yellowish, red in colour and ferrugi- 

 nous. The floor of dark slaty shale, slightly micaceous, dipping slight- 

 ly into the hill. The edge of the croom runs North 30° West, and, 

 judging from the smoothed and scratched surface of the rocks, it appears 

 to be formed by a break running in that direction. ' 



In addition to all these there are two other crooms to the East of the 

 village, and close to it, where a thick bed of coal is seen, but has been 

 scarcely worked at all. (These are marked g on plan.) 



North-East of the viUage, and distant about 2^ miles, another thick 



bed of coal is visible. I was informed by the 

 Difterent beds. • i ■ i 



Khasis wha showed me this coal that no other 



European had previously seen it. The coal is in parts even twelve feet 



thick, but it thins out again within a short space to three feet, and even 



less. The roof and floor are here, as in the other localities, of sand- 



