X. 



NOTICE 



OF THE OCCURRENCE 



OF 



COAL AND LIGNITE 



IN THE 



HIMALAYA. 



By lieutenant CAUTLEY. 



To the Secretary of the Asiatic Society. 



Sir, — Near the small village of Sildn'u in the lowest range of mountains 

 westward of the Karda Valley, about four miles from the point where the 

 river Choura Pani opens into the plains, a Geological expos6 of some import- 

 ance has been developed by the slipping of the right bank of the Jqjar Nadi, 

 (which, at the point of fracture, rises from 70 to 80 feet) into the bed of the 

 stream. In a series of alternations of indurated clays, and white micaceous 

 sand-stone, seams of coal, varying from ^ to 2^ or 3 inches in breadth, are a 

 prominent feature ; their general position being at an angle of 80°, or there- 

 abouts, though frequently interrupted by partial slips and sinkings of superin- 

 cumbent and contiguous strata, which, together with their extreme minuteness, 

 gives the seams more the appearance of a venous, than an alternating structure. 



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