OlOTAII.E!) DESCRIPTIONS OF THE RESPECTIVE COALFIELDS. n 
Hyderabad. 
Kunnigiri ; Madavaiaiu ov Damerchcila ; Lingalla ; SiN(iAKjoNi ; 
Alapalli ; Kamaram ; Chiiiur ; Tandur ; Aksapur ; Antargaoii ; 
Sasti. 
Jammu and Kashmir. 
Ladda-Sangar Maig ; Siio valley ; Lodhra, Mehowgala, Kalakofc 
and Dandli ; Aiis river ; Jehlam li. 
Madras and Southern India. 
Malabar and Travancore ; Mysore ; Pondicherry ; Place's Garden, 
Chingleput ; Bellary ; Nellore ; Kadapah ; Kistna District. 
Godavari valley. — Beddadanol ; Damercherla (or Madavaram). 
i North-West Frontier Province. 
Punjab. 
Bhaganwala , Dandot ; Isa Khel ; Choi, Attock ; Dore valley, 
Hazara ; Kalka. 
Rajfutarm. 
BiJcanir. — Palana. 
United Provinces. 
(ii). Afghanistan. 
In 1841, Captain Drummondi in his enumeration of places 
in Afghanistan where coal has been found mentions the following 
localities : — Dobandi in the Ghilzai country ; Hissaruk and Syghan 
in the Hazara country. The Dobandi seam is said to be thin and 
the Syghan coal ignites with difficulty. Captain Hutton^ men- 
tions a report that coal occurs in abundance in the hills of the 
Hazara country. Several of the specimens of supposed coal, which 
were forwarded to Mr. Prinsep by Sir Alexander Burnes for examina- 
tion, proved indeed to be more or less combustible, but were not coal. 
They were products of petroleum, or clay or rock saturated with 
1 Jour., A.'<. Snc. Bemj., Vol. X, 88 (1841). 
2 Col Jour. Nat. Hid., VI, 601 (1846). 
