PART 2 .] 
Hughes : Borings for Coal in India. 
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In the statement of expenses made by Mr. Ness there is a regular augmentation 
in the price of labor for every additional ten yards, equal to the cost of the first ten. 
Mr. Smyth has entered more into details, and thus rendered his returns more useful and 
more interesting. There is no regular rate of increase in the charges. 
The deepest hole (that of Pisgaon No. 9) 333 feet in depth, occupied only 43 days, and 
was put down at an average speed of 20 feet a day for the first 100 feet, 8 feet 4 
inches a day for the second 100 feet, 5 feet a day for the third 100 feet, and 5 feet 
6 inches for the portion of the fourth 100 feet. This is a rate of progress which, I think, 
must be admitted to be satisfactory. The rocks are principally sandstone, but there are 
some bands of clay, and these reduced the averages of speed considerably. The following 
e section of the strata passed through :—- 
Pisgaon — No. 9. Wtfu District. 
Ft. 
In. 
1. 
Surface soil 
... 5 
0 
2. 
Sandstone, 
yellow 
... 12 
0 
3. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 1 
0 
4. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 15 
0 
5. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 6 
0 
6. 
Ditto, 
reddish-yellow 
... 10 
0 
7. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 9 
0 
8. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 17 
0 
9. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 2 
0 
10. 
Ditto, 
reddish-yellow 
... 3 
0 
11. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 14 
0 
12. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 1 
0 
13. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 6 
0 
14. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 2 
0 
15 
Ditto, 
red 
... 2 
0 
16. 
Clay ,red 
... 7 
0 
17. 
Sandstone, red 
... 10 
0 
18. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 9 
0 
19. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 4 
0 
20. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 4 
0 
21. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 7 
0 
22. 
Ditto, 
yellow 
... 7 
0 
23. 
Ditto, 
red 
... 3 
0 
24. 
Ditto, 
yellow ... ... ... ... 
... 34 
0 
25. Black carbonaceous earth 
... 2 
0 
26. Clay 
... 
~ 9 
0 
27. 
Sandstone, white 
... 22 
0 
28. 
Clay, blue 
... 
... 4 
0 
29. Sandstone 
white 
... 33 
0 
30. Clay, blue 
... 8 
0 
31. 
Sandstone 
white 
... 40 
0 
32. Clay 
... 2 
0 
33. 
Clay, grey 
micaceous 
... 3 
0 
34. 
Sandstone, white 
„. 20 
0 
Total 
... 333 
0 
