98 BALL : GEOLOGY OP AUEUNGA AND HUTAR COAL FIELDS. 



to be the same as tjie one ealle(i the Muugurdar by Mr. Homfray, as 

 both speak of the near proximity of Hutar. 



Previous notices. 



Unfortunately I find that when on the spot I 

 omitted to enqui]|-e. |he names of the two branches of the river at Hular. 

 The true Muugurdar river^ however^ joins the Koel nearly four miles 

 north of the coal-field at Hutar, and, to the best of my belief does not 

 traverse any outlying pa^ich of m^^apres, but I ha,ve not examined its 

 course throughout. What r,iyer I^r. Homfray indicates by the name 

 Barwellia, which he speaks of as ', rmining to the eastward, ' i.e., coming 

 from the west, unless it be the Supahij I do not know;. I have already 

 commented on some other of Mr. l^Lom^ray's sta;ten;ients. 



^n the Koel, Talchirs are seen under the west bank ijp to within a 

 short distance o^ the Hutar river. Barakars then supervene, and the fol- 

 lowing section is found in the southern, Nowadih^ branch of the river 

 close to the lower tolehs of the village. Eesting on sandstone there is a 



seam about 5 feet thick, of which the bottom, 1 foot. 

 Seams at Hutar. 



consists of coal, dip Ih", to south. Above this there 



are shales very like Talchirs in lithological characters, followed by an 



irregular seam about 10, feet thick, including 1 foot of bad coal at 



top and 1' 4" of good coal at base [vide assay). This seam is traceable 



westwards for about a mile. Although it varieis somewhat in character, 



the thickness of the incl,uded coal reipains pretty constant. Tflje N<»:wa- 



dih hill to the south is composed of sandstones and congloiperates, with 



which there are some ironstones, which are smelted 

 Ironstones at Nowadih. ' . 



by the Aguriahs of seyeial neighbpuring hamlets. 



This neighbourhood, as a site of iron manufacture, wa§ mentioned by 



Captain Sage in 1830, and from the,great abundance of slag, itis. eyident 



that there have been furnaces here for a lon^ period. 



From the mouth of the Hutar river to that of the S^upahi, the Koel 



exhibits a broken section of sandstones with south- 



Supahi section. _ n • 



erly dip. In the Supahi, from its mouth up to the 

 point wheye it leaves the Doothoo hillsj which are formed of Mahadevas, 

 there is a more or less interrupted section of grits, sandstones, and 

 conglomerates, with dips of from 10° to 15°, to south, 

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