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Another Section gives : 



A friable carbonaceous soil, 2 6 



Sandstone, ,, 5 



Slaty coal, 3 ,, 



Friable grey sandstone, „ 4 



Slaty coal, 1 6 



Tough ferruginous sandstone, „ 5 



Slaty coal, 2 6 bed of nullah. 



Dip of strata, east. Strike, north and south. Between Umrapara and 

 Doobrajpoor the rocks are sandstone with occasional beds of intruded 

 basalt which enclose beds of zeolite. 



In the valley known as the Puchwara pass a quantity of iron is 

 smelted by a race named Nyas and exported to the plains or sold to 

 the hill-men and Sonthals, after having been manufactured into coarse 

 hatchets, plough shares and arrow heads. 



At Selunji, where there is a bungalow, and in the bed of the Bans- 

 looee, the gneiss with its accompanying dykes of greenstone, have been 

 laid bare by the action of the water of the river ; and to the north of 

 the river about a mile distant coal with shale and sandstone is found 

 overlying these hypogene rocks. Coal is also found midway through 

 the valley in a small nullah immediately to the south-east of the 

 Koonda hill, and one mile west of the village of Puchwara ; I have 

 marked the spot on my map of the hills in the hope that some one 

 having the leisure may visit the spot. 



Wth February, 1851. — Direction south, thirteen miles to Karodih, 

 where there is a bungalow on the banks of the Tirputtee nullah, that 

 flows over the Doobrajpoor coal beds, seven miles west from the Bun- 

 galow. 



The whole of the march was over broken raviney and hilly ground, 

 without roads. After crossing the Banslooee nullah, the footpath runs 

 through a forest of dhow and sterculia, the ground strewed with agate 

 and quartz crystals; nests of the latter are seen adhering to and 

 embedded in a dark-coloured and tough basalt. At the ford of the 

 river, stands a very handsome tree with dark foliage, the name of 

 which I am unacquainted with ; the natives call it kunda or grung, it 

 bears a handsome globular pod containing two seeds, which when ripe 

 are of a scarlet colour, from which is expressed an oil used for anoint- 

 ing eattle, and not human beings. 



