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nortli-west strike. Here the coal strikes into the land on the left bank; and nothing further 
is seen down the course of the stream, for a little more than a quarter of a mile of windings, 
hut sandstones lower than the coal, and then beds of the Talckir series. 
Still following the stream, however, I found, at about 2,800 feet from the last gap, 
Throe seams of coal lower down another sharply angular twist of the river crossing Bara- 
the stream. kar sandstones; and here the following section is traceable, 
in ascending order. 
At the bottom : The boulder bed of Talchirs overlaid by dirty jiale green line muds, sandy 
muds, and thick beds of pale gray green line sandstones. These are generally dipping 
westward or south-westward in irregular undulations, at 20° to 30°. 
Resting unconformably on the fine sandstones are— 
(1) . Grey weathering, slightly ferruginously noduled, very coarse, open textured, soft, 
X>ale, buff'and white felspathlc sandstones, with occasional thin layers of pebbles. 
Variously bedded, sometimes very thick, or thinning out over one another. The 
beds are somewhat thinner (3'—4') near the top/and more compact 
(2) . Thinner flaggy beds of soft sandstone and dark grey or blue sandy micaceous 
shales ... ... ... ... ... 
(3) . Coal. —Thinly laminated, rather stony, and full of patches of a soft velvety charcoal. 
(This is tho scam showing in the bod of the stream higher up) 
(4) . Coarse grey sands, thick and thin-bedded, somewhat thinner bedded towards top: at 
bottom, resting on the coal, a very thick bed, 20 feet or so, of coarse pale grey 
sandstoues, with a few iron concretions 
(5) . Coal. —(This is throughout the field a thin layer, and it at times thins out in strings 
into the sandstones). 
(6) . Coarse sandstones same as those below last scam of coal ... 
(7) . Coal. —Similar to lower scam 
(8) . Thick beds of coarse grey sandstones ... 
74 feet. 
1—2 ft. 
6 feet. 
60 feet. 
6—12 inches. 
15 feet. 
9 feet. 
15 feet and 
npwards. 
The upper bed of coal (7) shows in the steep face of the river hanks; a fine bed, 6 feet 
of it exposed vertically, the dip being a little easier here (25°—30°). A little brook from 
the westward has hollowed back a small cave in the coal. 
The middle thin seam (5) is just visible between cropping-up beds of sandstone. 
The lower seam (3) is only visible immediately beneath a large cliff of the sandstones, 
at a sharp turn in the river, where the latter is crossed by a ridgy hand of the sandstones 
below the coal, having a dip of 30° south-west. 
The coal has been washed out, and the cleft thus formed is filled with gravel and sand, 
but the upper part of the seam can still be scon just under the cliff. This cleft is the water- 
holder of the place, and it is in like spots in the other sections exposed by the river in these 
coal rocks, that water is now standing. 
A short distance further down tho stream, the same three seams of coal may, with care, 
be traced out at different points; here the dip becomes rather easier, while the strike is 
tending more round to due west. South of this, for a mile or so, there is nothing but 
Talchirs, and hills of Vindhyans on either side of the valley. 
After a good deal of searching at the original locality, higher up the river, I found that 
the three seams of coal are also there, and they are appa- 
Thrce seams throughout the field. ^ ^ ^ Qr increased in thickness as a 
whole. The upper seam is possibly a few feet less, while the lower is as stated 20 feet 
thick. The beds associated with the coal are pretty much the same as those given in the 
section above. 
Following the stream upwards from this for some 100 yards, round a spur on the light 
bank, there is another watering place under a ledge of sandstones; and here again is the 
