344 Note on Anthracite. [No. 112. 



Note on the Anthracite that formed the subject of my Letter of the 



28th ultimo. 



An intelligent Mootsuddy, with a couple of peons, were despatched 

 to the Jungaum purgannah, where the village of Duntimnapiliy is situ- 

 ated, the nearest to the spot where the anthracite was said to be procured. 

 On arriving at Chinnore, he proceeded in a north-westerly direction by 

 Tandoor and Jungaum to Duntimnapiliy, which is distant twenty 

 miles from the last mentioned town.* The country between Jungaum 

 and Duntimnapiliy is described as particularly wild, with Goands for 

 inhabitants. According to his account, the bed of anthracite is situated 

 on the bank of a nullah among hills, (I regret that not having a large 

 map I can indicate the situation no better,) that it is three feet at its 

 greatest breadth, and that it extends upwards of two hundred feet in 

 length. I give these numbers with some confidence in their being 

 accurate, as he brought a piece of bamboo with him by which the 

 stratum was measured. 



Box No. 8. — Contains a carbonaceous sandstone, through which the 

 anthracite was said to pass into the micaceous sandstone, 

 both above and below. A specimen of the latter is in 

 Box No. 9. — I send also further specimens of the coal 

 itself. The rock above the mineral was said to be fif- 

 teen feet in thickness. It may be added, that this coal 

 is esteemed of great value in the United States, where 

 seven hundred and fifty thousand bushels were sent 

 to Philadelphia alone in one year, (lire's Dictionary.) 

 It is there burned in peculiar grates adapted to its diffi- 

 cult combustion. It is used also in South Wales for 

 smelting iron. 

 Chinnore, 24th April, 1841. 



* Jungaum is 65 miles to the West of Chinnore. 



Note — I have used the general term sandstone, although there can be 

 no doubt from its position, known connexion, extent, &c. that it is the old 

 red sandstone; for the same reason, to avoid all theoretical views, I have 

 designated limestone by its mineralogical character. It would have been 

 easy to have given more learned terms, but my chief object — perspicuity- 

 might have been compromised by having done so. 





