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pool I was unable to see how much thicker it is. About 50 yards lower 

 down the river, coal which must be beneath the other is seen in the 

 following section : — 



Ft. In. 

 Shaly sandstone . . . . . . . . .30 



Shale 16 



Sandstone . . . . . . . . . .06 



Shale . . . . . , . . . .06 



Coal ...........20 



Sandstone, thickness not seen. 



7 6 



The dip here is rather higher than further up the river owing to a 



trap dyke just below the bottom sandstone which has tilted up the 



strata to some extent. This seam was visited by Major Ashburner. 



XIX. — In the stream running to the west of Pooreena (E. Lon. 



78 34') I found numerous fragments of coal 

 Coal near Pooreena. . . 



but although I visited the stream twice the first 



season and again the second season, I was unable to find the outcrop 



of the seam from which they had been derived. Major Ashburner 



however, reported a seam in this stream 8 feet in thickness. 



XX. — In the next stream to the west, beyond Nundora village 



(E. Lon. 78 33') and just on the boundary line 

 Coal near Nundora. . J 



between this village and that of Ghorawari, there 



is a 3-feet seam of coal exposed in the left bank dipping to north-east 

 at io°. It is probably really somewhat thicker as the surface soil rests 

 immediately on the coal at the exposure. This seam was reported 

 on by Major Ashburner. In one of the small streams to the north- 

 west of this there is a band of shale containing 3 inches of coal. 

 XXI. — In the small stream following to the north of Damooa (E. Lon. 



78°30'), and running into the Kanhan just bv 



Coal at Damooa. . *■ . . U J 



the village, a small seam is exposed, there being 



1 foot 4 inches of coal between sandstone and micaceous shaly 

 sandstone containing strings of coaly matter ; the dip is to north-20 - 

 west at 5 , and the coal appears to die out in a very short distance. 



Major Ashburner speaks of two exposures, at this place and of the 

 coal being over 4 feet thick, but I was only able to find one exposure 



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