SOHAGPUR COAL-FIELD. 



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In the face of the waterfall there are four carbonaceous bands, but it 

 is only the third in descending order that has true coal in it. Its thick- 

 ness is 3' 6." 



Near the villages of Balsing and Baser there are indications of coal, 

 but from those localities eastward to within a mile 

 Balsing and Baser coal. rf ^ j^fl borderj there is> pract ically speak- 

 ing, no coal with the exception of the belt of productive measures to the 

 south. Signs of carbonaceous deposits are not altogether wanting, but 

 they either rank clearly below the dignity of coal, or they are too thin, 

 or too indistinctly exposed to be classed definitely as worth consideration. 



In this category are included the outcrops near 



Outcrops, various. . 



Kusaha, Amhar, Sunhat, Urgai, lunjara, rathar- 



gua, Bhoswai, and Latma. 



Of the productive band to the south, the remarks which have already 

 been made of the area west of the Hestho give the reading. There are, 

 amongst many smaller seams, two of sufficient size to be workable under 

 the present ordinary conditions of Indian mining. To obtain a standard 

 section my colleague and myself ascended most of the streams, large 

 and little, which, curiously enough, have their watershed nearly coincid- 

 ent with the upper limit of the productive measures, but there was in 

 each instance too much incompleteness in the sequence of the rocks to 

 secure this result. We saw, however, outcrops after outcrops, which of 

 course were only the repeated symptoms of the same seams. The rivers 

 we examined specially were those of the villages of Lai, Harra, Kachar, 

 Nagar, Labji, Sardih, and Churcha. 



Beyond Churcha is the border land of Jhilmili, the boundary between 

 which and Korea passes by Roudserai and Tanjara. To the north- 

 north-west of Roudserai, which is situated on the 



Roudserai seam. 



new district road joining the capitals of the two 

 States, a good seam of coal occurs, but I could not see its entire thickness. 

 The small area of Barakars extending into Jhilmili was examined 



Barakars in Jhilmili and ma PP ed b y Lii la Hira Lai. A considerable 

 State, portion of it is overlaid by trap, coursing north-east 



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