48 HUGHES : SOUTHERN COAL-FIELDS OF REWAH GONDWANA BASIN. 



There is however one seam near Sahipur which, though obscured by 

 Sahipur noticeable water, appears worthy of attention. It crops out 

 8eam ' where a small stream east of the village joins 



the larger one coming fiom Karraban. About 4 feet are visible, but 

 probably 6 to 7 feet would be a nearer approximation to its true thickness. 

 About a mile below the Kaser is a little stream flowing from Birhuli 

 in which there is an inferior seam measuring 3 



Birhuli seam. 



feet, the continuation of one of those noticed 

 above. Then for 8 or 9 miles the Son flows over a considerable mass 

 of trap and through sedges which give the river bed an unusual appear- 

 ance of luxuriant greenness. 



Near Nabalpur the Sarpa falls into the S6n. This stream rises at 



the foot of the trappean plateau to the south, and 

 Sarpa stream. . . * 



receives a prodigious number of tributaries. 



One of them between Hardi and Sarangpur exposes a thin band of 

 carbonaceous shale at a spot where several specimens of plants were 

 obtained. As this is the nearest and only approach to anything like 

 coal over a large area, I have noticed it. It has no significance, however, 

 from an economic point of view. 



In another tributary, — the Jamiina Baisaha — near Dhamni, some 



very fine leaves of Noggerathiopsis hislopi were 

 Fossils. ...... 



procured, and m association with them were seeds 



of the same plant. " Of these latter, which Dr. Feistmantel has named 

 CarpoUthes milleri, he says, that they were first described from Passerabhia 

 in the Karharbari coal-field from Karharbari beds. Tt is somewhat 

 interesting to find them in such a distant region as showing the wide 

 distribution of this particular cycad. 



Enumerating the different collections of fossils from the neighbour- 

 hood of Dhamni, Sarangpur, and Hardi under one head as they all 

 belong to the same horizon, they comprise Vertebraria indica, Glossopteris 

 communis, Gangamopteris cyclopteroides, Gangamopteris spathulata, Ano- 

 mozamites, Noggerathiopsis hislopi, Noggerathiopsis lacerata, foltzia 

 heterophylla, Carpolithes milleri, Samaropsis, cf. parvula. 

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