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These borings are about li mile irotn each other; they are beyond a shadow of doubt in 
the same general beds and the same coals, whereas the very great amount of change in 
the thickness and character of the seams within this short distance is very evident. This 
is a very important point as bearing on the question of the economy of working. 
Proceeding northwards, two bore holes were next put down at Telwassa, near the 
river Wardha. The most southerly of these was intended to prove the beds below the 
thick coals, and to ascertain, if possible, the actual thickness of rock in this Lower Barakar 
group. It was carried down to 192 feet, and at this depth, when a few feet more would 
certainly have reached the Talchir beds below, the mineral lifter was allowed to get jammed, 
and in attempting to raise it, the steel valve box at the end was forced off and left in the 
hole, which was then abandoned. Some thin seams of very impure coal were found, as anti¬ 
cipated, just at the base of the series, but nothing worth working. 
The second boring was fixed about a mile further to the north, on the east side of the 
river, and here coal was cut at 68 feet below the surface, (of which 29 were surface soil); 
and the same series of beds asatGhiigus, again showing considerable variations, were pierced. 
Altogether 41 feet of coal of varying quality were cut through in a total depth of 138 
feet. (See Annual Report, Records, vol. Ill, p. 1-1). 
Another boring was commenced in the lands of the village of Gowarala, nearBhanduk. 
This was commenced, under a misapprehension of the instructions given, about half a mile 
from where it was intended, to have been, but was useful, inasmuch as the cutters struck 
the Talchir i-ocks immediately under the surface clay, and thus effectually proved the 
absence of coal there. 
Two other borings were put down at points intermediate between the Telwassa borings 
just alluded to and the pit near Chandur. These were near the villages of Belora and N i 1 j a, 
both in Bexar. Both proved the continuance of the same group of beds of coal and shale, 
exhibiting quite as markedly as elsewhere the great and sudden variation in its character 
and sub-divisions. 
It was next desirable to prove that the coal found on the Chanda side of the Wardha, and 
there dipping to the west, did actually extend into the country of Berar on the west of the 
same river. To the south near the villages of Pipalgaon and Ukni small faults affect the 
continuity of the rocks, and just opposite the point at which the boring in the Telwassa 
grounds had been put down, tire series has been thrown down to the south of a limit which 
crosses the river. This has enabled some of the beds higher in the series of beds over-lying 
the coal to be here preserved. And they overlap the coal beds to a greater extent than is 
seen in the adjoining and more denuded area. To test this part of the field, a bore hole 
was put down, which, however, was not sufficiently far to the west, to avoid this great over¬ 
lapping, and which, therefore, only touched the extreme outcrop of the coal beds. Another 
hole about a mile to the north proved very satisfactorily the entire continuance of the coal 
beds into the country on the west of the river, or into Berar. 
Tracing up the same series of beds further to the north, borings were put down in the 
lands of Konara. This was in the lower rocks (Barakars) and proved no coal: another boring 
was put down at Borgaon, also without success. Some three miles further north, a boring 
was put down on the Borar side of the Wardha at Goari (called also Agashi), but 
nothing but black coaly shales were found here. 
These borings were all in the lower rocks. Still further to the north in Chanda district- 
near the village of Majri, a boring was put down, first to the north of a fault which cuts 
across the beds there, with a view to proving that side, but without success, and then a second 
boring was commenced to the south of this fault, where the great overlapping of the beds 
was partially avoided, and here coal was found at 75 feet from surface, and gave a rough 
section of— 
Dark shale, a little coaly 0-2 
' Coal 51'8. And having proved this thick coal, we pro¬ 
ceeded no further. This thick bed, it must be remembered, is not all fair coal, but is split up 
with many beds of very varying qualities. 
A boring, still in progress, was also put down near Nandori, on the Chanda side of 
the river to the south of the large area of trap which covers many square miles of country- 
near to and around Wurrora. This thickness of trappean rocks effectually conceals 
