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Records of Ike Geological Surrey of India. 
[vol. IV. 
outcrop of the coal, and that a sinking of a few feet would produce abundance of coal to 
enable the quality to be fairly tested. A jumper hole, subsequently deepened by boring 
(No. 7), was put down in order to ascertain the presence of the coal. This gave_ 
(No. 7). 
—Yellow sandstone 
/-Buff shale 
i Dark shale 
A Coal ... 
(^Dark shale. 
Ft. In. 
29 6 
21 0 
6 0 
1 3 
26 3 
87 0 
showing that the beds are nearly flat, and that a great increase of thickness in the shale has 
been accompanied by a diminution in the coal. A pit was therefore commenced close to No. 2, 
but when it was only 13 feet deep, the quantity of water met with retarded progress so much 
that it was considered advisable to commence another on the high ground 30 yards west 
of No. 1, as, although it would be a little deeper, it would not be equally liable to flooding, 
and might be used for the extraction of coal. A borehole has shown that the section is 
the same as at No. 1. This pit is now in progress. 
Meantime one more boring (No. 8) was 
The section was— 
made only 200 yards west-by-nor 
Ft. Tn. 
(No. 8). Soil and gravel 
... 10 5 
1.—Coarse brown sandstone 
4 0 
f Light coloured and buff shale 
9 0 
1 Red sandstone 
3 0 
2 J Light blue shale ... 
j Red sandy clay 
2 9 
... 14 3 
Variegated day 
... 13 0 
^Dark shale 
... 21 7 
78 0 
This boring was in progress when I had to leave at the end of May, and I have not yet 
received accounts of its completion. The enormous thickness of shale recalls the section in 
No. 7, and both sections may possibly be below the white sandstone which underlies the coal. 
But it is more probable that the shale represents the shale and coal found in the two first 
boreholes. 
Lastly, as the absence of coal had been proved to the north-east and west, and no borings 
had been found practicable to the east, while the ground to the south appeared equally 
unfavorable for boring, except at a place on the bed in the Godavari where operations might 
at any moment, at the season now reached (June), have been stopped by a rise in the river, a 
borehole was recommended 500 yards south of No. 8 and south-south-west of No. 1. This 
(No. 9) has given the following section, sent to me by Mr. Vanstavern since my arrival in 
Calcutta— 
(No. 9). Soil &c. 
1. —Brown sandstone and conglomerate 
( Dark shale 
j Ironstone 
2. { Shale ... 
j Coal 
^ Shale 
Ft. In. 
... 39 0 
... 23 0 
3 0 
2 6 
2 0 
1 6 
... 2 0 
73 0 
