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the village about which I could obtain no information. A second one 

 east-by-south of the village was said to be the one from which Major 

 Ashburner had taken some coal. I was informed that it was 42 feet 

 deep, but the villagers knew nothing more about it. The third well is 

 to the south-east of the village; it was dug only about 1873, and was 

 said to be 40 to 45 feet in depth and to contain shale at the bottom. 

 From the information I was able to obtain on the spot, I am inclined 

 to think that the coal reported from here was not coal, but carbon- 

 aceous shale, as what I saw lying on the surface as having been ex- 

 tracted from this last well was certainly shale. It is however of but 

 slight importance whether it is shale or coal, as it must be cut off 

 at about a quarter of a mile to the north by the fault, and it is chiefly 

 interesting as giving a measure of the thickness of the Moturs, 

 through which the coal was reached at this point. 



§ 11. — The Gajundoh Field. 



Following up the Puthreye stream from just above its junction with 

 Outcrop near Gajun- the Kopadoh it passes over metam orphics as far as 

 dotu a point nearly north of Gajundoh village (E. Lon. 



78°46') , below the junction of the stream from Ghogri village, where mas- 

 sive Barakar sandstone is seen in the right bank. Further up, above 

 the Ghogra, shales are seen dipping to the north-io°-west at 30 . 



XIV. — A little further up still sandstone is again seen dipping north- 

 20°- west at 40 , and covering shales with the same dip. The shale is 

 8 feet thick and immediately below it are 5 feet of coal, then 3 feet of 

 shale. Sandstone indurated with silica is seen close by beyond which 

 the metamorphics come in again. 



Ft. In. 

 Sandstone, N-20°-W. at 40 , top not seen — 



Shale . .80 



Coal So 



Shale . . .30 



. 16 o 



In the small stream running into the Puthreye from the west just 

 above the Ghogra, the same seam of coal is exposed striking nearly 

 north-east and south-west, much disturbed, and with the accompany- 



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