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instead of 15 feet thick. It is probable, however, that when sunk into, an increase 
will be proved. The quality of the coal appears to he the same as that at 
Kairgura, and it possesses the same tendency to split, after exposure to the air 
for a short time. 
Another outcrop of this seam may be seen in the branch stream of the 
Outcrop near Guloti. ibapdr. It is, as usual, 
near the top of the group, and is underlaid by very 
typical nodular sandstone. There is no other section in which the Barakars are 
so fairly exposed as in this one; and all the rocks arc sufficiently characteristic 
to render their determination a matter of ease. The total thickness of the seam 
measurable is 9 feet. The direction of its dip is north 20° east, and angle 
of inclination 11°. 
I met with no other outcrops of coal, except the three mentioned above; but 
the fact that coal occurs, and is visible at intervals over a length of seven miles 
of country, makes it highly probable that it is continuous throughout the belt of 
Bore-hole positions. Barakars from Kairgura to Akniipali. To test this 
point, bore holes may be put down anywhere near the 
junction of the Kamthis and Barakars, some allowance being made for overlap, for 
here, as in the Wardha valley, the former creep over the shore edges of the latter. 
From Aknapali to Tetmatla, there are no Barakars shown upon the map. As 
I have already said, I am not prepared to maintain that they are absent, but I 
did not come across a single section which satisfied me that the rocks I saw were 
Sandstones resembling Bara- those of the Barakar gi’oup. Near T6tmatla there 
are sandstones which at first sight are somewhat 
difficult to discriminate from Barakars. In colour and textui’o and composition 
they are undistingmshablo, but their method of weathering is different. They 
have rounded outlines, and they have lost the distinctness of their linos of 
stratification a feature not usually observable in the Barakars, but common in 
the Kamthis. I have accordingly placed them in the latter group. 
Although Barakars are not seen, it is quite possible that coal exists, and I 
Borings recommended. Sdrdngpali, Tenkatdpurara, 
and Tetmatla as being likely to prove successful in 
the event of borings for coal being undertaken. In the river east of Tdtmatla, 
about 500 or 600 yards above its junction with the Godavari, there are some very 
promising Kamthi sandstones, and a hole of 300, or at the most 400 feet, ought to 
strike coal if it occur. 
The only other remaining Barakars in the field that I could recognise occupy 
a narrow strip of country extending from Chinur to Sandrapali. That these rocks 
are of Barakar age, is testified by their well-marked lithological characters ; and 
in the Godavari the nodular sandstone is a prominent and specific indicator of 
the group. The thickness of the entire series of beds is under 200 feet. There 
is no outcrop of coal, but the sandstone immediately under coal occurs at the 
Probable occurrence of coal mouth of the Sandrapali stream, and a boring in 
at Sandrapali. right bank of the Godavari, a little below the 
union of the two rivers, will in all likelihood strike coal, within a moderate depth 
from the surface. I found large fragments of coal in the bed of the Godavari 
