Excerpt from The Coal Resources of the World, Vol. 2: An Inquiry Made Upon the Initiative of the Executive Committee of the XII International Geological Congress, Canada, 1913; With the Assistance of Geological Surveys and Mining Geologists of Different Countries At the town of Dongola in Dongola province, Captain Hodgson, of the Egyptian army, discovered a thin bed of Iignite in A ril, 1903, While sinking a we I near the river bank. The deposit consisted of a ayer, about 9 centimetres thick, and 9 metres below the surface, in the form of a carbonaceous bed in whit ish, clayey sandstone. Mr. G. R. Carey, on behalf of Messrs. Lake and Currie, mining engineers, searched the neighbourhood in the winter season of 1908 1904 and sank several bore-holes with a diamond drill to considerable depths.

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