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N. N. E. towards mount Doomeyala, and between the village of Futti- 

 poor and Mount Tilleh. In some places, and particularly where it crops 

 out in the ravine, the coal appears of good quality in a seam 5 feet 

 thick, and on each side of this can be traced for at least ^ a mile, in 

 some places appearing to degenerate into highly bituminous shales. 

 The seam dips conformably with the strata above and below to the N. 

 N. "W. at an angle of 45° or 50° which would render the sinking of a 

 shaft through the strata superior to the coal, in such a locality, a 

 matter of considerable difficulty and expense. 



Keurah Coal. — This occurs above the salt mine village of Keurah 

 near Pind Dadun Khan, and about a mile to its N. E. It is seen 

 cropping out on the side of a ravine, the access to which is as difficult 

 as to the locality last described. The coal is found in the same geolo- 

 gical position, above the variegated sandstones, and is included in a series 

 of thin laminated sandstone marls and bituminous shales, the latter of 

 which are charged with aluminous earth and iron pyrites, and are here 

 and there incrusted with an efflorescence of sulphate of iron and alu- 

 mina. The seam is about 2 feet thick and rests on a blue clay inclosing 

 septaria, into which we dug 6 feet without getting through it. In this 

 as well as in the shales large crystals of gypsum are abundant. The 

 coal appears to dip with the other strata to the N. W. at an angle of 

 from 40° to 50° and may be traced across the ravine for about 30 yards, 

 where it seems to thin out among the blue clay on which it rests. 

 Where exposed to the atmosphere it is very brittle and covered with a 

 yellow crust of iron alum, but on digging into the seam it is of good 

 quality, pretty hard and compact, but here, as in other places, affording 

 abundant evidence of its imperfect mineralization. Above the coal 

 shales the same yellow marl occurs, and is succeeded by a considerable 

 deposit of the nummulite limestone, on which repose a series of soft 

 sandstone strata, that have evidently been much disturbed. 



Ruttipind Coal. — This locality is to the W. of the road to Kutass, 

 and about 3 miles from Keurah. The coal occurs among shales from 

 30 to 40 feet thick, full of large crystals of gypsum and pyrites and 

 interlaminated with their films of yellow clay. Two seams occur, the 

 lower one two feet thick, and separated from the upper, by shales of 

 about a foot in thickness. This measures 4 ft. and along with the other 

 may be traced down a deep ravine for 50 or 60 yards. The coal does 



