XL 



NOTICE 



ON THE 



OCCURRENCE OF COAL, 



WITHIN THE 



INDO GANGETIC TRACT OF MOUNTAINS. 



By Captain J. D. HERBERT, Sup. Min. Survey. 



X HE discovery of Coal in India, may be considered a recent occurrence. 

 The first notice of this mineral, appears to have been in the Burdwan dis- 

 trict, about sixty or seventy miles from the town of that name j where the 

 late Mr. Jones, who formerly owned the works known as the Albion Mills, 

 conceived, and executed the spirited design of rendering available, whatever 

 supply of the mineral might eventually be found ; and thus of introducing 

 into general lise in India, a substance, which, perhaps, more than any other, 

 has exercised, and will exercise, an influence in advancing the prosperity of 

 nations. He appears to have made an examination of the ground, by bor- 

 ing ; before venturing on an experiment, which would require some outlay of 

 capital, and, according to the report which I had of his proceedings, these 

 preparatory trials gave indications of a very extensive bed of Coal j having 



