104 NEEBUDDA DISTRICT. 



associate the presence of coal with these rocks. Doctor Carter indeed 

 quoted their authority to this effect, but although careful search has 

 been made in the localities mentioned by Captain Franklin no true 

 carbonaceous deposit has as yet been rediscovered there, or in any other 

 part of the great area occupied by the rocks of this series. 



Captain Franklin, as has been stated, refers the sandstones of 

 Bundelcund to the age of the European Trias, and Jacquemont (in 

 part at least) endorsed his views. But even supposing that this 

 opinion should ultimately prove to have been a correct one, it must still 

 be regarded merely as a happy guess, for these authors advanced 

 little tending to suggest, and nothing sufficient to maintain, such an 

 hypothesis. 



The Rev. J. Everest gave a low years later, in a paper published in 



the journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, (a) 



1833. Everest. 



some observations on part of the same country. 

 He described the sandstone and trap rocks, and defined some of their 

 boundaries, without however materially adding to the facts of Franklin 

 and Jacquemont. 



Lieut. Finnis described the country between Nagpur and Hosungabad. 



He noticed the prevalence of trap south of Betul, 



1834. Finnis. 



from thence to the valley at ohapur, he found 



vertically bedded* schists, quartzites, and mica slate ; from thence to 

 Kesla he observed sandstones with carbonaceous shale, among which Col. 

 Ouseley had in 1832 (1827 ?) discovered coal. He noticed intrusive trap, 

 and speaks of recent calcareous conglomerate and tufa. 



In the range crossed from Kesla to Patroda he mentions crystalline 

 limestone, quartzite, and other metamorphic rocks, and from all these 

 he separates the sandstone which he found at Hosungabad, and which 

 he agrees with Captain Franklin in calling New Red : distinguish- 

 ing it, however, from the sandstone he saw between Shapur and Kesla. 



(«) Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Vol, II, p. 475. 



