Chap. IV. § 2.] lower damuda group. 47 



running down the bed of the Adjai, forms its Southern boundary, and 

 causes the metamorphic rocks to be brought up South of the river. 

 All the Western portion of this small area, until the rocks are cover- 

 ed by alluvium, consists of coarse sandstone. This 

 Boring at Raswan. 



is fairly exposed about Raswan, just East of 



which a boring was made by the East India Coal Company, in 



consequence of some carbonaceous shale being found in the village. As 



might have been expected, no coal was found, and at a depth of 95 feet 



the borer came upon the hard gneiss rock. 



Just at the North end of Bara Village, a vein of quartz is seen 



apparently cutting through the Damtida beds 

 Quartz seen at Bara. 



and altering them. It so resembles granitic veins, 



that it is difficult to avoid believing that it is one. However, it may 



be aqueous in origin, as it is by no means well seen. 



Near to this, conglomerate bands occur near the boundary x which is 

 much faulted between Bara and Afzalpur. Some carbonaceous shales, 

 and, it is said, coal, were found in digging a well 15 or 20 feet deep at 

 Afzalpur, but the thickness is not known. 



Near Khorabad a quarry was opened in a seam of very inferior 



coal, by Mr. Nicol. It has now been abandoned 

 Coal at Khorabad. 



for many years, and, being of course full of water, 



all that can be seen is a thin seam of carbonaceous shale. The coal 



seam was of but small thickness. Further West, in the Sadarangi 



stream, about 1^ miles East of Kasta, the rocks seen at the base of the 



Damudas are coarse, white, felspathic sandstones, upon which come 



purple and brown shales and a small seam of coal, about 1 foot thick, 



then two or three little runs of ironstone of good quality, with shales. 



The only coal seam worked, or that is known to be worth working, in 



this strip of measures, is at Kasta. Here two 

 Coal at Kasta. 



collieries exist, one, now the property of the East 



India Coal Company, the other belonging to Messrs. Nicol and Sage. 



