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side of the sjucliuah It is impossible, however, to recognize the foregoing 

 section in that which follows. At the bend north-east of Badhunyah 

 there is a seam which includes 15 inches of bright 

 streaked but dense coal* dipping at 10", to 

 south-east. Apparently a continuation of the same seam occurs in the 

 next reach, with dip to south-west ; and in the north to south reach north 

 of Badhunyah and south-east of Hurilong, there is a seam which measures 

 about 40 feet horizontally, with a dip of 10°, to 

 south, representing a thickness of nearly 8 feet. 

 The coal is highly bituminous, the most so of any specimen examined. 

 Its small proportion of fixed carbon {vide assay) would render it defi- 

 cient in heating power. From its thickness, and being more easy of 

 access than any of the others, it might prove to be of value, which the 

 others certainly are not. In the wide hilly tract included between the 

 Dauri and the Koel, from Hutar up to its junction with the Thatha river, 

 I failed to find any trace of carbonaceous matter in any of the numerous 

 streams. Close to Badhunyah, there is a sandstone which is remarkable 

 for containing numerous marble-like concretions. 



In the neighbourhood of Morwaie the sandstones are often highly 

 Ironstones at Mor- ferruginous, and ironstones and red clays are of 

 ^*^®* frequent occurrence ; but the former, though fur- 



nishing an ample supply for the native furnaces, are, to the best of my 

 belief, neither here nor anywhere else within the Hutar field in suffi- 

 cient abundance to justify the belief that they could be employed pro- 

 fitably in the manufacture of iron on the European system, but to this 

 subject I shall return again in the Economic chapter. South of 

 Morwaie the Barakars are cut ofi" by a well-marked fault. On the line 

 of fracture associated with the fault rock I found some magnetite, par- 

 tially altered into red hsematite. 



I shall now describe the sections in the Koel and its tributaries, from 



Sections in Koel and north to south. First I must allude to the pre- 



its tributaries. ^^-^^g notices. Captain Sage's Burra river appears 



» I have not included the assay of this specimen in the table, as it would, being a use- 

 less coal as regards thickness, unfairly depreciate the average. The composition is, 

 moisture 7-6, volatile 30-6, carbon 38-2. ash 23-6. 



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