On the Geological Structure of the Central portion of the Nerbl-DDA 

 District by Jos. G. MEDLICOTT, A. B., Geological Survey of India. 



(Introductory note by Mr. Oldham.) — In submitting the following 

 report, a few words of explanation are necessary. In the Autumn of 

 the year 1854, the examination of the Rajmahal district being then 

 nearly completed, it was decided that the Tenasserim Provinces should 

 be visited, with a view to ascertaining the amount of coal and other 

 mineral wealth which they possessed ; and that, at the same time, the 

 district of the Nerbudda should be examined with a similar object. I 

 proceeded myself to the Tenasserim Provinces, and with the aid of my 

 active colleague, Mr. William Theobald, Junior, was enabled to visit, 

 and report upon, the more important mineral districts of those territories, 

 and also of the lower part of the Irrawaddee valley. Subsequently I 

 accompanied Major Phayre on his mission to the court of Ava, and was 

 then enabled to map and describe the country along the river Irrawad- 

 dee, to a distance of some 70 miles above the capital of Burmah. The 

 Nerbudda party meanwhile proceeded to their district, under the charge 

 of Mr. Joseph G. Medlicott. The temporary assistance of his brother, 

 Mr. Henry Medlicott, then recently appointed, from the Geological 

 Survey, to the Professorship of Geology at Roorki College, was afforded 

 to me by Government ; and with these two Geologists was united Mr. 

 John S. Kennedy, a young gentleman of much promise, but who had 

 just arrived in the country, and was quite untrained. 



During the limited portion of that season which remained after their 

 arrival in the district, a general preliminary examination of the coal fields 

 in the Nerbudda valley was accomplished, and a brief report on the 

 whole by Mr. Jos. G. Medlicott was submitted, (a) After a few months 



(a) Selections from the Records of the Government of India, No. X. 



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