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gation purposes. In digging this some coal was passed through, though 

 from information obtained from the villagers it seems to be of no great 

 thickness. The section passed through is said to have been as follows : — 



Ft. 

 Yellow sandstone ........ 2 



Coal i 



White sandstone ......... several feet. 



The dip of the ordinary Barakar sandstone to the south of this 

 hole is to north-west at 8°, but I could not find the coal outcropping. 



VII. — About half a mile below the village, a small stream from 

 Coal in well near Dongur-Chicklee runs into the Ghogra Nala ; 

 Dongur-Parasia. close to the j unct ion and to the south of the 



smaller stream, there is a well near the mouth of which there is a 

 large amount of shale lying on the surface. I was unable to find any 

 outcrop of coal or shale in the immediate neighbourhood of the well, 

 but a villager who said that he had helped to dig the well informed 

 me that the total depth dug was about 16 feet, and that the rocks 

 passed through were — 



Red and yellow sandstone . . . . . .120 



Coal . . . . . . . . . .46 



Shale not passed through. 



The red and yellow sandstone appears to have been a hard sand- 

 stone much impregnated with silica, and closely resembling a rock 

 that is seen in the Ghogra stream lower down and in the Bhandaria 

 stream near the fault cutting off this portion of the field towards the 

 south. The dip of the sandstone near the well is 8° to north-west. 



VIII. — About half a mile west of Dongur-Parasia in the smallstreams 



running from Dongur-Chicklee, and just at the 

 Another outcrop. . 



foot of the long hill capped with trap, some 



2 to 3 feet of carbonaceous black clays and shales are exposed, with 



a dip of 5 to the north. These shales and clays rest upon sandstone 



where the bottom is seen, but the section was nowhere well exposed. 



I believe this is the same as Mr. Blanford's No. VII Parasia seam. 



IX. — In the stream locally known as Ghogra Nala, flowing into the 



Bhandaria river just at the boundary between 

 Outcrop in Ghogra Nala. 



the village lands of Bhandaria and Dongur- 



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