182 



JSotices of Books : 



[JULV 



and the same distance S. E. from Sohagepore. Two unsuccessful at- 

 tempts have been made, says Captain Franklin, to get boats down the 

 Soane from this place, the stream being obstructed with rocks in two 

 .situations below Sohagepore. 



" Coal has also been found according to Captain Franklin in sinking 

 a well at Jubalpore. 



*' l^owah river 7iear Bhoorda.—ln September 1831, Lieutenant 

 Finnis communicated to the Asiatic Society, the discovery of coal 

 thirty-three miles south of Hoosingabad, and eight south of Bhoorda.* 

 The coal is ob'servable on both banks of the Bhoorna river (one of the 

 branches of the Towah) on the west of the road going to Baitool. 

 Ironstone is also mentioned as occurring with this coal. 



" Sakar ri't;er.— Captain Ouseley has recently brought to light a 

 third site of coal in the Nerbudda, of excellent quality and inexhausti- 

 ble quantity, within eight miles of Chukeli and twelve or fourteen 

 from Gorahwarah proper on the Sakar. 



" What has been said in another section regarding the navigation of 

 the iSferbudda from Baug to Hoosingabad, a distance of three degrees, 

 may enhance the value of the two last mentioned discoveries. f 



" Rajmal. — At Rajmal coal has been found by Captain Tanner in 

 two situations, viz. at Sicrigully on the banks of the Ganges, and at 

 Hurrah, twenty-five miles distant. With regard to Sicrigully this place 

 has been recently visited by Lieutenant Don, who reports to the Com- 

 mittee that as far as he and Lieutenant Egerton who accompanied him, 

 could determine no coal exists at the foot of the Mootee Jarma water- 

 fall where it was supposed to have been observed by Captain Tanner.f 



" At Hurrah large quantities of coal has been extracted, but although 

 we have every information relative to the working and expense of con- 



* " Captain Ouseley it appears had observed it previously." 



t The distance from Hoosingabad to the Guzerat coast is 300 miles, and for two thirds 

 of the way the Nerbudda is navigable. The principal land carriage would be between Chi- 

 culdah and Tulluckwarrah, about 90 miles, and probably with the exception of 20 miles 

 between Taimria and Kowut, wheeled carriages might be employed." 



" The mercantile effects of opening such a communication between the Nerbudda pro- 

 vinces and the coast as the supply of coals from the former to the latter would naturally 

 introduce, might be an object of sufficient national importance to justify a special enquiry 

 as to the best means by which it might be accomplished." 



X «' I am informed by Mr. C. Glas that there is a coal mine, at Sicrigully but not at the 

 foot of the waterfall the spot visited by Lieutenant Don, but near the village of Moharag- 

 pore, in the vicinity of the waterfall Mootee Jarma." 



