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the sand-stone, which there borders the great mountain zone, forming the 

 continuation in that quarter of the Himdlaija. This formation, I should be 

 inclined to consider as equivalent to one sand-stone of the Indo Gangetic 

 tract, were it not that it is said to contain beds of bituminous shale, a rock 

 never observed in this quarter. The statement is important, and well de- 

 serves verification, as, if not originating in some mistake, it may be consi- 

 dered to hold forth a well-grounded hope of discovering profitable beds of 

 Coal. 



A third notice appeared in the Newspaper, of Coal, found in digging 

 a well Sit Sdgar, or Jebbelpur, (I forget which): of the nature of the rock, or 

 mode of occurrence of the Coal, I have never been able to learn any further 

 particulars. 



The fourth notice of Coal in India, is one lately submitted to the So- 

 ciety, by Lieutenant Cautley, Assistant to the Superintendent of the Doab 

 Canal : specimens of the Coal, and including rock, were obligingly submitted to 

 my inspection by that ofiicer. Having myself also, discovered several other 

 localities of this mineral, I have thought it might not be altogether uninter- 

 esting, to submit to the Society the several particulars which I have thrown 

 together on the subject. 



The Coal found by Lieutenant Cautley, in the vicinity of Nahn, is 

 part of a series of thin seams or flat veins, which are traceable along the whole 

 line of sand-stone hills, that lie at the foot of the great Himalaya chain or 

 system, and form the transition to the plain country. This sand-stone is 

 (I think it almost certain) part of an extensive secondary formation, which, 

 on the one hand, includes the sand-stone hills of Sylhet, and on the other, the 

 saliferous range of Lahore. This latter opinion, if founded in fact, would 

 tend to establish the identity of this range with the rock marl of England, 



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