12 MINERAL STATISTICS. 



continuation (although actually separated) of the Nerbudda deposits. 

 The coal is not now economized. 



In Madras no coal is known. Coal has been more than once stated 

 to occur on the Godavery, or some of its feeders. And even very 

 recently ; but as yet nothing but black shales, which will not support 

 combustion, and which are, in all probability, of a totally different 

 age from the coal-bearing rocks of India, have been met with. 



T. OLDHAM, 



Sapt. of Geological Survey of India. 



Calcutta, 1st June 1861. 



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