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BALL AND SIMPSON: COALFIELDS OF LNDIA. 
undertaking was abandoned before the holes had been carried to a 
depth sufficient to demonstrate that coal seams are non-existent. 
Daniercheiia {or Madavaram). — -The most important part of this 
field being included on the Nizam's side of the river Godavari, 
it is described under the Hyderabad section. The amount of coal 
on the British side was considered by Dr. Blanford not to exceed 
25,000 tons. 
(xvi). North-West Frontier Province. 
No coal of economic value has as yet been discovered in thi? 
province. As early as 1833 Lieutenant Burnes ^ wrote a short 
account of what was supposed to be coal from the neighbourhood 
of Kohat, where it was found near the petroleum wells. The sub- 
stance contained 37 per cent, of volatile matter and only 6-2 per cent, 
of fixed carbon ; it was apparently a bituminous shale. In 1838 
the same individual forwarded to Mr. Prinsep ^ for analysis a 
specimen of lignite of fine quality said to have come from a thin 
seam near Luagarkhe}'l, a village under the Malik Buda, between 
Tak (Tank) and Kaneegorum (Kaniguram). 
In his report on the Kohat Salt District, written in 1876, 
A. B. Wynne ^ mentions a supposed find of coal near Dand, 
north-west of Shakardarra. Further enquiry from the local officials 
disclosed a doubt as to whether the locality were not Shin Dand, 
a village near the Jawai (or Zhuwakai) Pass, between the Kohat 
and Peshawar districts. Nothing further was heard of the dis- 
covery, which may be referred either to the thin layer of lignite 
occurring in Upper Tertiary sandstones in other parts of the country, 
or to the numraulitic horizon. In his account of the geology of 
the Sherani hills, T. D. LaTouche * alludes to previous reports of 
coal discoveries in that country, and while admitting that coaly 
strings occur in rocks of nummulitic age, states that he did not dis- 
cover or hear of any actual seams. 
(xvii). Punjab. 
The coal of the Punjab has for many years attracted notice, 
the great importance which a supply of good fuel would possess, 
1 Jour. As. Sioc. Ben(i., II, 267, (1833). 
2 Joar. A.«. Soc. Bcmi., VD, 8.53, (1838). 
3 Mem., G. 8. I., Vol. XI, 294, (1875). 
* Bee, G. S. I., Vol. XXVI, 96, (1893). 
