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impregnated without any of the conditions that are known to accompany 

 the formation of coal : there is no analogy in the section to favor either 

 opinion, and there is the total absence of plant impressions, be they ever 

 so faint, which commonly occur in the rocks associated with coal. 



There are two other points of some weight. Rocks which are almost 

 certainly the continuation of these Semri beds, crop out in the Sone 

 valley and there they are not in the condition which I have supposed 

 them to have here, of being under gradual extinction; however, there is 

 no more symptom of coal there than here. The other probability is that 

 these beds are of very different age from the known coal measures of 

 India. 



CONCLUSION. 



I have already had occasion to allude to the labours of previous 



observers in the district I have above described. 

 Previous observers. 



The name of Captain Franklin is prominent in con- 

 nection with the diamond deposits of Punna : indeed he is the only observer 

 wnose work calls for special notice ; the papers of others being so brief 

 and unconnected, that their observations even where correct, afford only 

 a few lithological indications. 



What has been said of Franklin's paper on the diamond mines is 



equally applicable to his memoir on the general 

 Captain Franklin. 



geology of Bundelcund. His chief object seems to 



have been to establish independently, the position of these rocks in the 

 general scale of admitted formations, rather than to make out their actual 

 conditions. And for this purpose, he relies on evidence which would not 

 now be considered valid. This fact in reality renders it difficult to com- 

 pare our labours with his, and I should have considered this a sufficient 

 reason for omitting these remarks altogether. It may, however, be 

 better to point out here in the briefest manner some of the errors in 



