i838.] Reports on the Coal and Mineral Resources of India, Ib'I 



" Bidgegur. — Mr. Heyland of Chiinar has found coal in a situation 

 about eight miles distant in a soulh-east direction from Eidgegur Fort, 

 where it appears in a bed three feet in thickness at a spot about half a 

 mile distant from an unfrequented pass called Umbiah Ghat, to which, 

 the spot where the coal appears, bears east, and he has reason to be- 

 lieve it also exists at another spot half a mile west of Umbiah Ghat. 



" In several situations in the bed of the Ghaugor river nearer (o 

 Bidgegur than Umbiah Mr. H. states he found an inferior coal, and he 

 has no doubt that the best may be found in several places in this vici- 

 nity by sinking shafts. 



" Captain Stev/art of Chunar to whom the above information v^'as 

 communicated, says that the last mentioned locaiitj was formerly no- 

 ticed by himself as containing indications of coal ; should (he remarks) 

 as appears reasonable to expect, good coal be found in this situation, 

 no difficulty will be experienced in transmitting it to Chunar on wheeled 

 carriages, the country presenting no material obstacle to the construc- 

 tion of a good road. 



" Until these indications be further examined it would be prema- 

 ture, as has been already observed, to recommend any extensive mea- 

 sures to be adopted with the view of bringing the Palaniow^ coals into 

 use. 



" Manpur. — At a situation still higher than that of the great coal 

 field of Palamow, and in the same latitude but fifty miles more to the 

 west, Captain Franklin discovered a bed of coal of good quality at a 

 place called Manpur in the district of Singrowla, sixteen miles south 

 of Chergur, but being situated in a mountainous country and the navi- 

 gableness of the Kungher and Myrair being doubtful, the prospect of 

 the discovery proving useful was at the time slender, still, as the 

 locality is not much above forty miles from the great branch of the 

 Soane opposite to Bidgegur, and coal is found on the one side at Pala- 

 mow, and on the other at Sohagepore, with one of the considerable 

 rivers above mentioned on each side, this interesting discovery of Cap- 

 tain Franklin oug ht to be kept in view. 



" 5o/m^e/9ore.— Captain Franklin on the same occasion found coal 

 in two situations in the district of Sohagepore, still in the same 

 parallel of latitude, but upwards of a degree and half farther west. 

 The first situation is a few miles N. W. from Sohagepore and about an 

 equal distance from the Soane, and the other at the confluence of the 

 Tipan with the Soane, about thirty miles from the source of the latter, 



