730 A Description of the Coal Field [No. 128. 



sand-stones. This pit is within a hundred yards of the great Salmah 

 basaltic dyke, and at a distance of 600 yards lower down the river is 

 the accompanying dyke at Bharah. They run to the south-westward 

 nearly, but not quite parallel. One of these is traceable to the neigh- 

 bourhood of Telindah, where is an abrupt conical hill, an offshoot of those 

 hills which constitute the western boundary of the coal field all the way 

 up to Pachete and towards Ramghur. The other dyke is traceable to 

 the same range of hills near to the village of Rampore. The distance 

 from Salmah and Bharah is about six miles. 



Near to my pit, these dykes, which are each of them about twelve 

 yards in breadth, cross the Damoodah river diagonally, and after 

 continuing their course nearly a mile along its bank, they gradu- 

 ally tend towards each other, and the Bhara dyke intersects and 

 crosses that of Salmah, at a place called Juggernat Ghaut. The 

 Salmah one continues in full breadth across the country, through 

 the village of Damarah, and several others towards the Adji, and is 

 traceable for the distance of very many miles. The Bharah dyke, 

 where a point intersects that of Salmah, continues its course through 

 the country, but in a different direction, running towards Herahpore, 

 and near to which it also meets another basaltic dyke of lesser 

 magnitude, which I trace from Majeet, and they seem to have united, 

 for I lose all trace of it thereafter. The dyke then turns a little more 

 eastward, and continuing onwards, crosses the Benares road between 

 Gopalpore and Neamutpore, and continues on towards Dabystan and 

 to the schistose hills in that neighbourhood. It is these two main dykes 

 which have caused the alteration in the strata, since the veins which 

 are found on one side have not found corresponding ones on the other. 

 Proceeding up the Damoodah on the south-west bank near to Berooee, 

 there is a nullah called Tentooleah which falls into it, and which takes 

 its rise in the igneous hills at the back or western side of the Pa- 

 chete hill. This nullah skirts the base of the Beharrynauth hill ; it is ex- 

 tremely rapid and rocky. Within this nullah the various small veins 

 of coal met with in the pit at Salmah are here visible, and when close 

 to the base of the Beharrynauth hill, a fault throws up the strata, 

 bringing to view a vein of coal of about seven feet thickness and ex- 

 cellent quality. There are I believe not less than nine different veins 

 which lie above this, and two rich veins of iron-stone. To attain this 



