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Ball: Italy ark and Hingir Coal-field. 
Higher up the river, close to the foot of the falls over the upper sandstones which are 
described on a following page, the Dewan of Kodibuga pointed out to me some fragments of 
carbonaceous shale which he said had been there for several } r ears. Whence they came I am 
quite uncertain. There may possibly he a seam at the foot of the falls covered up by water 
and fallen blocks. Certainly in its higher reaches the river does not cross any Barakar rocks, 
and I found no trace of carbonaceous matter in the stream above. 
Between Jhargaon and Dibdorah, the sandstones, wherever seen near the boundary, as 
also the coal at the latter place, exhibit no trace of great disturbance at their edges, having, 
apparently, when faulted, gently subsided into their present position. Neither at Dibdorah 
nor Jogidhipa are junctions disclosed by the rivers. Between Dibdorah and Jogidhipa the 
Barakars are of the same character as those between the former and Jhargaon. 
At Jogidhipa, the scarped hills, which further east marked the limits of the upper beds, 
locally die away, and physically it seems possible that the rocks exposed for some distance to 
the north might be Barakars, but lithologically they appear to belong to the upper group. 
Continuing along the valley we find at Lipuspali, north of the village, dark colored sand¬ 
stones which appear here to form the base of the upper series. No Barakars are seen, though 
they doubtless exist under the alluvium. Before reaching Manwapali, Takhirs are found to 
come in again, forming a narrow strip along the boundary and leaving but very little room 
for the Barakars to occupy. 
In the Supnai west of Bhogra (Basunpali of map*), at the base of the section, there is a 
short thickness of sandstones, apparently Barakars, which dip from the boundary at an angle 
of 30 to north; the overlying rocks, too, are also locally disturbed. Between Bhogra and Sum- 
bulpuri the position of the Barakars is marked by ironstones, which are seen near the village 
of Badpali. At Sumbulpuri, if the coarse grits seen in the river section dipping at angles of 
from 30° to 45° from the boundary he not referable, as seems probable, to the Barakars, 
then that group must be here reduced to very narrow limits. At Danot the upper rocks 
come close to the north of the village, while Talchirs crop out on the south; but there is 
room for a small thickness of Barakars. In the Kelli section between the gneiss on the one 
hand and brownish-red upper sandstones on the other, a concealed interval affords room for 
both Talchirs and Barakars. One short outcrop of Talchirs is. seen close to the road crossing. 
Had I not known something of the upper reaches of the Kelli, the occurrence of frag¬ 
ments of coal in the bed of the river, as it issues from the upper sandstone hills, would have 
been a puzzle involving much fruitless search. It is evident that these fragments have 
travelled from the seams which the Kelli traverses far to the north near Tamar and 
Jhargaon. 
Between Laka and Cheripani, an interval of only about 150 yards exists between these 
upper sandstones and the Yindhyan quartzites. In this interval laterite and a recent 
conglomerate are the only rocks seen. Further west from this I did not meet with the 
slightest trace of Talchirs, and the lowest sandstones seon are not, I think, Barakars, so 
that both series are again most probably cut out by the fault which hence westwards runs 
between quartzites of Vindhyan age and the sandstones of the Hingir group. 
Gaejait aeea. To the north, under the Garjan hill in Hingir, some carbonaceous 
rocks, probably Barakars, are exposed in the streams. This area has not been examined as 
yet in detail. 
biOETHEEN Raigarh aeea. —This is an area of Barakar I'ocks of which upwards 
ot 200 square miles have been examined. It is situated in the north-eastern corner of 
* The names of all the villages in this part of the valley are misplaced on the map.—lAtlas Sheet). 
