On a reputed Coal Formation [no. 4, new series, 
and preserving the original texture of the wood, and still even flexi- 
ble, whilst other portions are completely converted to a substance 
having all the appearance of coal. The silicified nucleus is tra- 
versed by veins of iron pyrites. Great numbers of these silicified 
pieces of wood -are met with, in every part of the bed of tne river. 
In the Tal river, a small tributary of the Godavery, running into 
it near Lingala, I observed in my teturn journey,— the debris of a 
slaty coal, not in isolated masses, but thickly scattered over the 
river bed, it had been washed from its-^position in the banks or in 
some of the nullahs of this river. 
It was unfortunate that this material did no' come to my notice 
earlier ; as it would have been very desirable to make some exami- 
nation of the district, through which the Tal runs, the monsoon 
rains hovevev had commenced on my arrival there and rendered an 
expedition into this unexplored district impracticable this season. 
Mr. Tuke in his survey of the Sebbery river mentions the- fae^ 
of a report that coal exists up that valley, as the Tal river runs into 
the same line of country that report seems to be confirmed in proba- 
bility by the finding of the material in the Tal. 
The line of fault, before alluded to, as observable along the whole 
course of the river has a tolerably general direction to the N.^., ^ 
points of greatest disruption and alteration being observable at the 
Buddrachellum, Enchampilly and Aheree Barriers ; — at these places 
the beds are turned up on end, and contorted in every possible 
manner, — ^at the intermediate places the whole masses of country 
seems to have been upheaved, the beds preserving a tolerably ho- 
rizontal position ; this feature is well observed in the hills south of 
Dewulmuree, where the strata can be traced running in horizontal 
lines from hill to hill, the intervening valleys having been formed 
by the wasting away of portions of these beds ; — towards the lower 
part of the river, at Kota and also at Albaka the beds have an in- 
clination downwards from this line of fault, so that, in travelling 
in a north easterly direction from the river, a recurrence of the series 
described, or portion of it, may be expected to be again met with. I 
