1838.] Reports en the Coal and Mineral Resources of India. i5S 



To these may be added the indications of coal discovered in boring 

 at a depth of 400 in Calcutta and 300 feet at Goga in Gujerat. 

 We have the honor to subscribe ourselves, &c. 



(Signed.) W. Cracroft, ^ Members of a Com^ 



JamesH. Johnston, ^^^.^ for investigate 

 H. B Hkndckson, V. ^i^^ ^^^1 andmme» 

 W. N. Forbes, ^^.^f resources of India. 

 „ J. Prjnsep, / 



„ J. McClelland, Junr. Mem. & Secy. 



Calcutta, \Slh October, 1837, 



The first section of the Report, after preliminary observations, give*; 

 a table of the sites in which coal has been found; but as one, sutficent 

 to answer our purpose, has already been given, we content ourselves 

 with extracting the following remarks thereupon. 



In the foregoing situations coal has been traced from Burdwan to 

 the westward, across the Valley of Palamow, and from thence through 

 the district of Sohagpore to Jubulpore, and the neighbourhood of 

 Sak, and the Towa river in the Nerbudda territories, 420 miles distant 

 from Burdwan. Observing nearly the same parallel of latitude, it is 

 found in the province of Cutch, whilst it is extended in the same line 

 across the centre of India to the N. E. extremity of Assam, forming a 

 zone that stretches from 69° to 93o E. longitude, embraced in an op. 

 posite direction between the 20*' and 25° N. latitude. Charida on the 

 "VVarda river, Cuttack, and Arracan being its southern boundary, whilst 

 the Vale of Callinger west of Allahabad, the Teesta river at the base 

 of the Sikim Mountains, and Upper Assam, form the northern limit. 



"There are however, two situations in which coal has been found dis- 

 tinct from this extensive and well defined belt, namely, Hurdwar and 

 Attok ; the first near the source of the Ganges, and the second near 

 that of the Indus. Although situated in the plains, yet both these 

 situations appear to be too closely connected with the Himalaya, and 

 too much detached from the tract now under consideration, to allow 

 of their being considered in common with it. In the infancy of re- 

 searches of this nature, for such we must as yet consider the state of 

 our information upon the subject of coal, it would be wrong to attach 

 exclusive importance to the peculiar distribution of the mineral just 

 noticed, farther than to observe, that this distribution appears to be 

 highly favourable to all those objects for which coal is desirable. 



Cutch, the extreme -vYcstern limit of w^hat here might be named the 

 "arboniferoue zone, is placed in the most faycurable situation for yield- 



