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RANIGANJ COAL FIELD. 



[Chap. I. 



Lower 



Measures. — (Continued.) 









Brought forward 



. 55 



5 



43. Taldangah coal 



... 



. 10 







44. Ditto ditto 







. 7 



6 



45. Coal 



... ... 





3 







45. Ditto 



... ... 



.. 



. 9 



5 



46. Ditto ditto 



••• ... 



.. 



. 13 







47. Under ditto 



... ... 



.. 



. 16 



6 



48. Coal, No. 2 



... ... 



.. 



. 12 







49. Coal, No. 1 







. 20 







50. Coal under ditto 



■•• ... 





. 15 









Total 



• « • 



161 10 





.. 354 1 



The Coal Committee are most deservedly reproved for their views 

 as to the superior quality of coal being dependent on, or connected with, 

 its altitude above the level of the sea and the disturbance it has under- 

 gone. They, with a logic perfectly consonant with the appreciation 

 which they throughout shewed of the value of evidence, considered that 

 the most conclusive proof of the presence of the lowest members of the 

 coal measures from which they believed the best coal to be obtained, 

 was the position of those " coal measures" on the tops of mountains, 

 the highest measures, on the contrary, being found in the low-lands of 

 the country. So wild a statement might fairly have been left to be 

 •judged by the self-evident contradiction which it involved. Mr. Wil- 

 liams proves from the South Wales coal field that good seams may 

 be just as abundant in the upper as in the lower part of the coal 

 measures. 



As no published additions of any importance have been made to our 

 Points decided by Mr. knowledge of the geology of the Eaniganj field 

 since the publication of Mr. Williams's Report, 

 it may be well to state briefly what was established by him. 



1st. — He clearly showed a great succession of beds, the whole of 

 which, with one exception (his " upper measures"), he interpreted 



