j6hilla coal-field. 



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Umaria and Korar fields. There, the main coal occurs well up in the 

 measures, but the difference here, so far as I could judge, lies in the 

 circumstance that the rocks are all below that horizon. 



I would not discourage any wbo may, years hence, wish to satisfy 

 their own expectations, and the following is a 

 statement of the few places at which there are 

 slight si ens of carbonaceous matter. 



(«) South of Amuari, where the road from that village to Lakkan- 

 pura crosses the Johilla, there is the following 



Amuari. . 



section (descending) : — 



ft. in. 



Thick -bedded grey sandstone . . . . . 20 0 



Thin lenticular band of coal and carbonaceous shale . . 10 



Micaceous sandstone ....... 40 



Grey and carbonaceous shalo ...... 40 



Sandy micaceous shale ....... 80 



Dip north-north-west 



(b) Half a mile south of Mangthar, on the right bank of the 



Johilla, a thin bed of coal and carbonaceous shale, 

 Mangthar. . 



2 feet thick;, crops out. 



From this place, as also Amuari, fossils were procured, which Dr. 



Feistmantel determined to be 1 — 



Gangamopteris cyclopteroides. 

 Noggerathiopsis hislopi. 



(e) Some carbonaceous shale is exposed west of Mangthar in one of the 

 small streams having no name, but in which there are several salt-licks. 

 There may be a possibility of finding the thick coal under the 

 Lametas of Isunpura and Taktai ; but to search 



Possibly thick coal 



occurs in direction of for it will be a speculative undertaking, and one 

 Isunpura. .. , ,, 



quite unnecessary, so long as the more conveni- 

 ently situated seams of the northern area and those of Umaria and 

 Korar are not exhausted. 



1 Palaxmtologia Indica, 1882, Ser. XII, Vol. IV, p. 14. 



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