52 hughes: solthehn coal-fields of rewah g6ndwana basin. 



Passing again to the other side of the Son, three coal hands occur in 

 the Singaora and Silpari and Diapipar streams. 



Outcrop in Sinpnora, 



Silpari, and Diapipar The largest of these is at the outfall of the Singaora 

 into the Son at the bottom of a small cascade ; but 

 like the rest it seems to promise nothing of practical value. 



In the actual bed of the Son, there is no sign of coal for many miles 

 down its course beyond the junction of the Singaora Nala, until the village 

 of Guraru is reached ; but in the Murna river, which was alluded to when 

 describing the neighbourhood of the town of Sohagpur, there is an out- 

 lUurna Nala, Bijauri cro P between the hamlets of Udri and Bijauri. I 

 outcrop. could not in any of my measurements make the 



thickness more than 5 feet, and the quality struck me as being poor, 

 pieces of the coal being very heavy. One of the exposures is at the base 

 of a small waterfall at the mouth of a rivulet joining the Murna, and 

 while examining it I disturbed a fine male tiger (which I subsequently 

 shot) that had retired for the day to the cool enjoyment of an umbrageous 

 retreat. 



The last seam of coal in the Son, and the highest in the series crops 

 out in several different places near Guraru. It 



Guraru seam. 



is capped by carbonaceous shales and sandstones, 

 and the whole mass of dark-looking rocks forms a conspicuous feature 

 in the river bank. It was the first seam of coal that I met with 

 after we had commenced the survey of the Sohagpur field. I could 

 obtain no information about coal from the natives ; but by follow- 

 ing- up the water-borne fragments for several miles along the channel 

 of the Son from the confluence of the Johilla, I discovered the source 

 whence they were derived. The following is the section -of the 

 seam : — 



ft. in. 



Coal . . 5 0 



Carbonaceous shale . ...... 6 0 



Coal 2 4 



Carbonaceous shale ........ 2 0 



Coal 2 8 



Carbonaceous shale and coal, not all seen. 



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