60 RANIGANJ COAL FIELD. [ChAP. IV. § 2. 



Immediately West of the Barakar several seams of coal are seen in 



the neighborhood of the village of Barmuri. 

 Coal near Barmuri. . 



The highest in the series are about half a mile 



South of the village, and consist of two seams seen on the bank 



of the Barakar, the highest and largest, however, is only 4 feet 



thick. Immediately South of Barmuri a seam occurs, which has 



been worked to some extent by natives many years ago ; it is an 



admirable example of an irregular seam, the 



Thickness. 



thickness being any thing between 15 feet and 

 30, and the seam itself being a mixture of coal, shale, and sand- 

 stone, each of which passes into the other, so that some layers of 



the seam which at one point are coal, 20 yards 

 Bad quality. 



further may be hard, gritty sandstone, with- 

 out any carbonaceous appearance. Not many feet beneath this seam, 

 and just North of the village, occurs another seam from 15 to 20 

 feet thick, which has also been cut into. It is, if possible, even 

 more irregular and inferior in quality than that South of Barmuri. 

 It is also much altered by trap. Thirty or forty feet lower in the 

 section, a third seam is seen, of great thickness, probably nearly 30 

 feet; a fourth seam occurs about 10 feet below the third, and a fifth a 

 short distance further North ; but the out-crops of the latter are not 

 so well exposed. Supposing the two lower seams, each to measure 

 10 feet, there is, in this spot, a thickness of nearly 100 feet of 

 coal, nearly the whole of which, so far as can be judged from its 

 appearance at the surface, is worthless for anything, except brick and 

 lime burning. 



Passing Westwards, many indistinct out-crops are seen near Mira 



and Taldanga. A fine seam was dug into for 

 Seam near Taldanga. ..,. ,, i-ii/.i 



6 or 8 feet, in sinking a well to the depth or about 



30 feet at the dak bungalow. Immediately West of the latter, there 



runs a stream called the Jhelia, in the banks of which, in places, a 



