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The roof is a tough, strong carbonaceous shale, and in appearance 



is not unlike the A band. It has stood excellently, 

 Roof good. ... Pi-iii i 



and not a single piece or timber has been required 



to support it. 



The dip is very low, which is a favourable point in the estimate of the 

 value of the field, scarcely rising above 4° in the 



Dip low. , 



inclines. Its direction is nearly north-east. 

 The quality of the coal wrought in the quarry and in the inclines 

 has been strongly tested under various conditions, but I intend reserving 

 my full remarks as to its effective character for the Economic chapter of 

 this memoir. 



In anticipation, however, I may observe that the lowest 2 feet and 

 the bright coals constitute the best portion of the 



Baud d, clinkers. 



seam ; and that the hard band a would have to 

 be picked out, as it readily fcrms clinker. 



The area over which coal has been proved may be accepted as 1£ 

 Proved coal area H s( l l]al * e miles, but it will -be quite legitimate 

 square miles. ^o assume that the underground extension of 



the measures in the direction of their exposed dip will give a far 

 higher figure for probable coal lands. I think it quite possible that they 

 extend uninterruptedly to the northward, dipping beneath the supra- 

 Barakars and appearing again, as the Korar coal-field. With reference to 

 the Johilla Valley, I scarcely like to venture even an opinion ; the dis- 

 tance between the two coal-fields is 12 miles, and the intervening 

 stratigraphical evidence is altogether too meagre to make any statement 

 on the subject of their continuity other than an idle guess. 



SECTION VIII. — THE KORAR COAL-FIELD. 



The next outlier of Barakars to be described is 3 miles from the 

 nearest margin of the Umaria coal-field and to the north of it. It has, 

 in default of a better name, been alluded to in our manuscript reports as 

 the Korar field. There was no natural feature distinctive enough to 

 suggest a title, and so the village nearest to the locality where coal was 

 most conspicuously exposed was adopted as the distinguishing appellation. 



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