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of the " Conqiieror" steamer, in the month of July. This seems 

 quite to have exhausted the supply, as when we lately visited the 

 locality we could only find nests of lignite in the shales, which was 

 so soft and powdery, that it was impossible to procure even a speci- 

 men. The nummulite limestone formation at this point, and indeed 

 all the rocks, are much disturbed, and the mass of nummulite lime- 

 stone with the shales is evidently a portion, which has been detached 

 from its connection with the regular bed, and got thrust under some 

 broken up beds of Devonian sandstone, which may be seen in the 

 hills above overlying the nummulite limestone. 



Rid. This locality is to the west of the direct path from Kurrah 

 to Chooa Seydun Shah. The shale beds lie under a cliff of shattered 

 nummulite limestone due south from the village of Pid, and between 

 that village and Taber. The access to the locality is difficult, and 

 the coal occurs in two seams, the lower one of which is in some 

 places two feet thick, and separated from the upper which varies 

 from one to three feet by shales of about a foot in thickness. From 

 extensive spontaneous decomposition which the shales have under- 

 gone, the coal is for the most part charred and brittle, and is encrust- 

 ed with yellow alumimous earth. In some places the shales have 

 been burnt into a white clay stone which is blotched occasionally by 

 peroxide of iron. The brown calcareous sandstone too on which 

 the shales rest here and there presents a baked and whitened 

 appearance, resulting from the heat to which it has been subjected 

 duriug the combustion of the shales. 



The coal is of inferior quality to that of Baghanwalla though 

 evidently part of the same deposit. As the cliff on which it occurs 

 is covered by so much debris, we were unable to dig any depth into 

 the seam, so as to obtain specimens which had not been subjected 

 to the influence of decomposition. Where the seam crops out, it is 

 at least two thousand feet above the plain, and is in too inaccessible 

 a locality ever to be worked to advantage. By mistake in our 

 Eeport of 1848 we called this coal locality Euttipind. 



Demdhote. In a ravine about five hundred yards west of this 

 village and under the high escarpment of the Salt Kange, a mass of 

 nummulite limestone which has evidently been detached from the 

 escarpment, forms a small rounded hill, at the foot of which some 



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