1854.] Notes upon the Geology of the Bajmahal Rills. 269 



Similar rocks occur to the west of Mussinia, near the village of 

 Dhomunpore. In these, the coal beds are a little thicker, but too 

 poor in quality to be workable with profit independently of their 

 very close proximity to the gneiss, and granite rocks, which renders 

 the amount of coal and its extent uncertain. 



Encircled by the overlying trap rocks, a similar series of alter- 

 nating beds of sandstone, shale, and shaly sandstone appears in 

 the valley of Dubrajpur and Gopikandur ; here also found resting 

 upon gneiss, and shistose rocks. The coal of this locality occurs 

 in thin beds much mixed with earthy matter, and is of very inferior 

 quality. In fact, it is nothing more than a bituminous shale. 



The sandstones extend on the south to Saldaha, and thence to 

 near Katticoon, where they are supported by the gneiss, as in other 

 places. Here also thin beds of coal are found, but none of these 

 afford any prospect of becoming a profitable source of fuel. 



Prom this, the sandstones sweep round the slopes of the hills on 

 their western scarp ; and curve round the base of Muhooagurhe hill 

 into the Puchwara pass ; in the valley of which, there is a large 

 area covered by these rocks, in which some beds of tolerably good 

 coal occur, (Bur go) . Again from the Puchwara pass, these sand- 

 stones and shales skirt the western flank of the hills, northwards 

 to the Chuperbhita pass, preserving on the whole, a tolerably per- 

 sistent lithological character. Here also, near to Chuperbhita, thin 

 beds of coal are found. 



Stretching still northwards, with some little interruption in their 

 continuity from faulting, these sandstones cover a large area to the 

 south of the range of Gundesree, where the coalpits (sunk originally 

 by Capt. Tanner) near to the village of Hurra, are situated. North 

 of this, the great flats of Munneehari and of Bhaugulpore com- 

 mence, and no rocks are visible. 



Independently of this continuous range of the sandstones on the 

 west of the Bajmahal hills, there occur several detached areas of 

 these rocks within the hill district, which will be described more in 

 detail hereafter. Although of great interest in a geological point 

 of view, and as connected with the history of the formation of the 

 rocks of these hills, these are of little economical importance. 



Resting upon, and covering up these shales, sandstones, and coals, 



