86 ’ Records of the Geological Survey of India. [v^ol. xii. 
Table III.— Imports of Australian coal to India from 1857 to 1877,—contd. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
1860 to Ben 
gal ... 10,008 to Bombay 
... 8, 
1861 (a). 
. 
... 12 
1862 
... 7,191 
... 5, 
1863 
. 
1864 
... 13,292 
1865 
... 5,207 
1866 
... 6,376 
1S67 
... 7,465 
1868 
... 5,792 
1869 
... 9,257 
1870 
12,607 
1871 
... 8,942 
1872 
... 5,916 
1873 
... 1,511 
1874 
... 14,677 
1875 
... 4,652 
1876 
... 6,130 
1877 
798 
(a). Returns 
for Bengal not given for 
1861. 
To illustrate the distribution of the imports to the five great Provinces of 
India, I have selected the years from 1870. Bombay is by far the largest 
receiver; the cotton-mills of the city of Bombay and the railways having their 
terminuses there being hea^-y consumers of foreign coal. In Bengal the railways 
and nearly all the steam-mills burn exclusively the produce of the better seams 
of the Eaniganj field and those of the Karharbdri field ;— 
Table IV.— hnfoHs of coal to different Proolnees of ndia from 1870 to 1877. 
1870 . 
1871 . 
1872 . 
1873 . 
1874 . 
1875 
1870 . 
1877 . 
Tons. 
Tons 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Tons. 
Bombay 
239,651 
167,257 
220,884 
208,269 
216,543 
249,836 
260,080 
368,937 
Bengal 
42,443 
63,929 
89,775 
48,688 
82,120 
63,821 
61,091 
76,278 
Bunnah 
20,198 
26,731 
39,981 
36,715 
27,071 
33,301 
38,397 
47,770 
Madras 
11,648 
9,033 
9,390 
15,513 
25,043 
12,155 
20,275 
22,544 
Sind 
1,995 
2,426 
1,930 
1,079 
3,454 
1,138 
9,637 
7,855 
Total 
315,935 
269,395 
361,960 
310,264 
354,231 
360,251 
389,480 
523,384 
