1851.] Notes upon a tour through the R&jmahal Hills. 



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9. 



Description of locality. 



One mile due north from No. £ 

 enclosed valley, is a coal bed. 



situate man 



Discoverer's name. 



Mr. Pontet, 1844. 



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10. At the entrance to the hills on the western 

 flank by the Chuperbita pass, and under 

 the lofty spur of a hill of the same name, 

 and in the bed of the Goomani or Jumoonee 

 nullah, are three beds of coal extending to 

 a distance of two miles, and one mile fur- 

 ther north-east are traces of coal in the 

 same nullah. 



North sixteen miles, of No. 10, and twenty 

 four miles south of the Ganges, is the great 

 Hurrah basin, with several outcrops of a 

 slaty coal, associated with and underlying 

 columnar basalt. 



At the Bora Ghaut on the Gundaisree hill, 

 which forms the northern boundary to the 

 Hurrah basin, are traces of coal. 



At the Motee Jhurna waterfall, overhanging 

 Sikreegullee on the Ganges, are traces of 

 coal, but in small quantities. The coal ap 

 pears to have been charred and disturbed 

 by the basalt, in the heart of which igneous 

 rock the coal in several instances appears 

 enclosed in detached nests, twelve feet in 

 length. 



A large Rhinoceros looking fossil skull is seen 

 embedded in the basalt. 



The summit of the hill, from whence the small 

 stream forming the waterfall at this spot 

 flows, is composed of basaltic columns rest- 

 ing on non-columnar basalt which latter 

 rock envelops the coal. 



12. 



13. 



Captain Sherwill, 

 1851. 



Captain Tanner, 

 1831. 



Captain Tanner, 

 1831. 



Captain Tanner, 

 1831. 



N. B. There is an untraced bed of fresh-water limestone in the 

 northern portion of the hills, four miles south of the Teleeaghurhee 

 Fort ; and situated between the two small hamlets, Gurytee and Simur- 

 tollah. 



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