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He speaks liiglily of this coal as being very bituminous and burning- 

 with a clear bright flame. It has been supposed that the coal spoken 

 of as being of inferior quality by Mr, Smith (videpostea) was the same, but 

 this I do not think to be the case. I shall show on a subsequent page that 

 there are several distinct outcrops of coal in the Dauri section. 



Captain Sage also visited the ' coal mine ' at Hutar, and in the Burra 

 river close by discovered extensive beds of coal on the left bank. I do 

 not know to which of the streams the name Burra was applied. If it be 

 the one at Hutar, the term extensive is certainly applicable to the seams 

 in a sense, as the lateral extension is considerable; but the thickness it 

 will be seen is trifling. 



Ironstone is said to be plentiful in the neighbourhood of Alyapur, 

 three miles south, where it is worked. The name Alyapur is unknown to 

 me, but ironstone does occur about three miles south of Hutar. Captain 

 Sage's remarks on the navigability of the Koel I shall again allude to. 



In the year 1837 Mr. J. Homfray was deputed by the Coal Com- 

 Homfray, J., 10th naittec to report on the coal fields of Palamow. 

 July 1837.' ' Hesays^:— 



" At a ford near Mungardar Nuddee on the river edge, four or five thin bands of coal, 

 from four to twelve inches in thickness, but no thick vein ; near to this place is Hutar, 

 and this is conjectured to be the site of Eennel's ' Cole mine, ' since there is no other place 

 in the river for some miles where coal is to be found, untU we reach the small nuddee 

 of Barwellia running to the eastward ; and at half a mile up that stream there is a fine 

 vein of coal three feet four inches thick. This coal is found also to the westward at 

 Myapore, and indeed for an immense distance southward and westward ; it is traceable 

 even down to Singhbhum and towards Euttenpur — this I learnt from an intelligent 

 zamindar with whom I was in company for three days — so also to the eastward ; and 

 this is what constitutes the Palamow coal field. Within the Barwellia Nuddee this vein 

 of coal is three feet four inches, exclusive of some little adhesive black shale which 

 makes the apparent thickness of the vein to be four feet six inches. Both sides of this 

 Nuddee are very high sandstone hills, and underneath which the coal is traceable to 

 the eastward and northward, continuing to crop out in a vast number of places until 



^ Coal Committee's Report, 1846, p. 159. 



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