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9. Massive felspathic sandstone, with calcareous bands. 



10. Coal worked at Sitarampur. 



11. Fine bedded sandstone, felspathic, brownish-gray, and carbonaceous, some 



lenticular hard bands and some muddy shale. 



12. Ditto coarser, a small seam of coal 1 foot thick is seen here. 



13. Coal, 6 feet. 



14. Sandstone as before. 



15. Coal, 12 feet. 



The above embrace a thickness of nearly 3,000 feet, and comprise 



three worked seams of coal, the lowest being that 



Sitarampur colliery. 



mined by Messrs. Apcar and Co., at Sitarampur. 



It is said to be of excellent quality, but in consequence of the engine 



on the works being too small for the mine, no coal was extracted during 



the years 1859 and 1860, and, consequently, the workings were full of 



water. The out-crop has been largely worked, the thickness of the 



seam is said to be 12 feet. 



Messrs. Apcar's colliery upon this coal seam is to the West of the 

 Nunia : East of the stream some quarries have also been worked by the 

 Rani Srinamoni, but they are small. The two higher seams enume- 

 rated in the above section have been, to some extent, worked by the 

 same proprietor, especially the upper one, which is quarried in land 

 belonging to the village of Dhamra, and the coal in which is of good 

 quality. It is overlaid by shales, containing fine impressions of fossil 

 plants. 



Two hundred or three hundred feet above the last mentioned 



coal, is a seam, probably about 5 feet thick, 

 Kogonathbati. 



and upon which some small quarries have been 



duo 1 . It is about to be worked by Messrs. Apcar and Co., near 



Kosonathbati. 



The next seam seen is worked by Messrs. Apcar and Co., at Gharwi, 



North of the Nunia, (which here runs from West 

 Gharwi : Barachuk. 



to East,) and at Barachuk, boutn oi the stream : 



until lately the workings at both these places have been merely 



