256 
On a reputed Coal Forynation [no. 4, new series, 
the system answers,"^ though they are not very good specimens 
of Photography^ Two of them are specimens of Hindoo carving in 
stone, the camera having been constructed a good deal with the 
idea of copying the curiosities in the many temples in this part of 
the country. 
c 
XI. Report on a reputed f Coal Formation at Kota on the 
on the ( Upper J Godavery Biver. By Philip W, "Wall, 
Mineral Vieicer at Madras. 
I have visited and examined the district around the village of 
Kota near the junction of the Pranheeta and Godavery rivers upon 
which reports have been made to Government of the probability of 
Coal being found beneath the surface there. 
Although, in the report made by Dr. Walker in the year 1848 
I could discover no positive evidence of the probability of the ex- 
istence of a Coal formation in this district, I considered it desira- 
ble to provide myself with some means of making more than a 
mere superficial examination, of this particular locality, on account 
of the confidence with which opinions had been expressed, upon 
the subject, and that both Drs. Walker and Bell, whose examina- 
tions of the country must have been very extensive and minute, 
were led to expect satisfactory results from a search beneath the sur- 
face at this place. 
Having seen in the Arsenal Stores at Madras, some light sets of 
Boring tools, (used for the trial of the ground for foundations of 
Public Works,) I applied for and obtained the use of two sets of 
♦ "We have examined these pictures and find them to be Stereoscopic— A. J. S, 
Sec. Phot. Soc. 
t Vide Dr. Walker's report on boring fcr Coal at Kota, /wjye 261, Vol. I. Xj. 
II. X. S of this Journal 
