1840.] 



Eeport of the Coal Committee. 



371 



Company have established a colliery in this situation,* in addition to 

 the one already alluded to on the Disung; thus two principal depots 

 will be supplied on the main river at Debru and Dikoo, from distinct 

 coal districts capable, if necessary, of supplying other depots along the 

 whole line of the Bramaputra. 



An excellent coal was found by Lieut. Bigg and Mr. Griffith on the 

 Numroop river, in Upper Assam, and Mr. Bigg states that immediately 

 opposite the village on the west of the river is another range of hills 

 similar to those in which the coal is found; in these they found eight 

 or ten springs of petroleum. 



IVerhudda. 



With regard to the Nerbudda coal, the Committee have' received no 

 communications since their last reports were laid before Government, 

 but it appears to have been since tried at Bombay, and found to be of 

 very excellent quality. 



Specimens of coal were found by Captain Burnes during his mission 

 to Cabul in 1838, in the following districts, viz., 1. Shukurdura, near 

 Kala Bagh, where it occurs in a hill two miles south of the village, and 

 other situations in the neighbourhood ; distance from the Indus about 

 15 miles. 2, near Muckud, locality doubtful. 3, fifteen miles SSE. of 

 Cabul near Moozye, in the vicinity of copper mines. 4, Jamoo, in the 

 Punjab, near the Chenab, where it would be as valuable as if found on 

 the Indus. 5, between Tak on Kaneegoorum, NW. of Dera Imael Khan, 

 1| coss East of the small village of Sungarkhyle, in the neighbourhood 

 of the Indus, where the country is said to be poor, and labour cheap. 

 Captain Wade, Political Agent at Lodiana, also found specimens of coal 

 in the Maundi Hills north of the Sutlej : more recently we believe Mr, 

 W. Jameson, whose observations will be of peculiar value in every 

 point of view, has found extensive tracts belonging to the coal forma- 

 tion, approaching as near to the Indus as he had been able at the time 

 he wrote to carry his inquiries. — Journal of the Asiatic Society of 

 Bengal, No. xcviii— 1840.— pp. 198—214. 



{Signed) J. M'CLELLAND, 

 ^th Aprils 1840. Assistant Surgeon, 



Secretary Coal Committee. 



* As well another at the place. 



