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Notices of Books 



[July 



In order to overcome the difficulties opposed to the navigation of 

 the Caile, several expedients have been proposed. That of Captain 

 Sage of forming a bund at Ganeah Ghat v/here for three miles the 

 river is obstructed, vi^ould, if successful only have the etFect of obviat- 

 ing a portion of the difficulty to be encountered ; for the rest he sug- 

 gests the formation of a cut from the bund across the table land for the 

 distance of 30 miles to the nearest branch of the great Pompon river, 

 the bed of which should be levelled and locked the whole way to Futwa 

 on the Ganges; or, instead of the last part of the proposition, to re- 

 move by means of gunpowder the impediments to the navigation of the 

 Caile at Manjean below the situation of the proposed bund. 



" This last is certainly the more feasible plan, but before either of 

 the modes proposed for bringing the Palamov/ coal into use for the 

 navigation of the Ganges be carried into effect, it would be necessary 

 first to know whether or not the mineral can be had in situations more 

 accessible, if not, some ingenious plan will no doubt sooner or later be 

 devised for bringing this coal into use. 



" The lower coal field appears to have been originally a slightly in- 

 clined plane composed of sandstone, shale and coal disposed in hori- 

 zontal beds in which streams have worn ravines to a depth of from 20 

 to 60 feet, giving to the present surface a broken and uneven aspect. 

 On the sides of the undulations and in the ravines coal bassets are every 

 where seen.* There would seem to be above the coal, a sandstone 38 

 feet in thickness intersected in the middle of its depth by a minor bed of 

 coal and shale, beneath which, a two feet six inch bed of coal occurs ; 

 an alternation of sandstone and shale divides this from the main coal, 

 beneath which there is 60 feet of sandstone. The rocks associated 

 with coal in the upper field do not appear to be very different from 

 those which compose the lower one, except that the sandstones would 

 seem to be finer and harder in the former ; only two beds of coal, the 

 one three feet nine inches and the other one foot six, are given in its 

 section by Mr. Homfray. 



* " The following computation of the section has been made by Mr. Homfray from the 

 3^ppearances on the surface of the ravines. 



Surface. Ft. In. Ft. In. 



Sandstone — 20 0 Ironstones Ft. In. 



Coal 1 4 measures 5 Shale.... 5 Ol 



Shale 



Sandstone 



Ft. In. 



0 10 

 18 0 



14 0 



very white j 



3 0 Aluminous 



8 0 Sandstone 



3 8 Quartz and beneath it granite." 

 3 0 



3 2 Sandstone ) 



12 0 



3 0 



12 0 



60 0 



