30 HUGHES : SOUTHERN coal-fields op rewah g6ndwana basin. 



Its total area is 9.^ square miles, forming an irregularly shaped 



crescent around the north-eastern prolongation of 

 Area 9| sq. no. ... 



the Lora metamorphic inner. The houndaries of 



the Barakars are fairly well seen, and the supra-Barakars are too distinct 



in character to leave any douht as to their identification, so that the 



separation hetween them and the coal-measures is easy. 



Several streams traverse the field, and one of them is the Umrar. Its 



confluence with those flowing from Bareri, 

 River Uuirar. * -r\ 



Murguri, Gagrar, and Damokar marks the upper 



limit of the Barakars. 



The major portion of the field has heen cleared of jungle, but 

 adjoining it there are several plots of underwood, and more especially to 

 the north of Dudrauuri. Near at hand are the 



Forest rcs6rves» 



reserves of the English Forest Department, coin- 

 cident for some distance with the boundary of the Rewah State. I 

 have no doubt that they can furnish some useful timber, and this 

 will be a convenience of no small consideration when a colliery is 

 started. 



There are numerous sections of the Barakars, but the most complete 

 views of them are in the neighbourhood of Korar, Dudrauuri, and Achala. 

 The rocks consist of grey and yellowish somewhat porous felspathic 

 sandstones, occasionally micaceous and sometimes calcareous, associated 

 with beds of carbonaceous shales and coal. A large sheet of trap, 

 varying in width, runs nearly the entire length of the field, and there is 

 an inlier of the Talchir group between Kotalwar and Khaira. The 

 general dip is to the north. 



Notice of the existence of coal in the Korar field was originally 

 brought to us when encamped at Bareri by the landlord of Bardauha, 

 but it was not professionally confirmed until my colleague, while tracing 

 the boundary of the trap eastward of Tali in December 1882, saw and 

 mapped the different seams. 



There are several outcrops, but there is only one main carbonaceous 

 horizon, as in the case of the Umaria field. 

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