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On a reputed Coal Formation [no. 4, new series, 
After leaving the Government Steamer, I sent my camp to march 
by land, and proceeded myself in a Paddle boat, taking only the road 
through the jungle occasionally. 
My staff could have reached Kota in somewhat less time than 
they did, if it had not been impeded by the slow progress of the 
materials ; — I had found it requisite to give instructions that the 
whole party should keep together as much as possible. 
As for myself, I found it requisite to make my observations 
along the course of my march somewhat in detail and to visit every 
spot on either side of the river where the possitiHty of an oppor- 
tunity of examining any exposed section of th? rocks of the coun- 
try might be presented, my own daily rate of progress could not 
therefore have been expedited. 
The result of the observations in my journey was, that I had 
passed over a considerable extent both superficially and in thick- 
ness of a sedimentary deposit of sandstone and limestone, and at 
its edge or junction with some one or more great volcanic disturb- 
ances or faults, these had in fact formed the valley of the river, 
the channel forming a tolerably general line of division between 
the metamorphic range of hills on the eastern and sandstones &c. 
on the western side, occasional arms or branches of this metamor- 
phic range, stretching across the line of the river and forming the 
great obstructions or barriers in its bed at Buddrachellum,Encham- 
pilly and Aheree.. 
In the course of my examination of these sedimentary beds in 
my march up the river, I found nothing in the remotest degree 
approaching to those indications which are met with in European 
Coal districts, neither in my examination of the pebbles in the 
river bed did I discover any thing of this nature. 
I could of course form no conclusion at all or be surprised at 
this negative evidence, as I was quite prepared to meet with a 
totally different state of circumstances connected with Coal dis- 
tricts in India to those of Eurepe, and that therefore an actual 
examination of the rocks in any district in detail through their 
entire thickness was necessary, in order to pronounce decidedly 
