Valley i)f Oodipoor, 6| 



vuUi chain. They dip, when not perfectly vertical, to the 

 E. N. E. *. 



Immediately to the eastward a series of primary rocks occur, 

 of which gneiss associated with hornblende rocks, and rocks ha- 

 ving the mineralogical characters of granite, are the preponde- 

 rating members. This series flanks the argillaceous formations 

 of the Valley of Oodipoor, and extends to the southward, form- 

 ing the ranges in the neighbourhood of the Dhabur Lake. To 

 the north it merges into the primary formations of the north of 

 Mewar, and to the east is again succeeded by argillaceous schists 

 and quartz-rocks, which dip under the sandstones of Malwa. 



From the above distributions, it appears that the strata of the 

 Valley of Oodipoor dip towards the primary rocks which occur to 

 the eastward, to which latter they are conformable, — an arrange- 

 ment'.perhaps induced by the operation of an upheaving agency 

 occurring to the westward, which was probably exerted with great- 

 est energy in the neighbourhood of Aboo, but by no means in- 

 ferring that the Oodipoor strata are inferior in i\\Q07iginalovAev 

 of superposition to the belt of rocks which flanks them to the 

 eastward ; but it is my object at present simply to record facts, 

 and I shall reserve the little I have to say in the shape of com- 

 ment, till such time as I shall have been enabled to furnish my 

 readers with a connected view of the actual phenomena in their 

 difierent bearings and relations to one another. 



We shall now proceed to examine in detail the geology of the 

 rocky belts above briefly adverted to; and, to render the account 

 more connected and intelligible, we shall commence our survey 

 from the plains of Mewar, bordering upon the Valley of Oodi- 

 poor. Taking our station at Meirta (lately the residence of the 

 British agent at the Court of Oodipoor), situated on a rocky 

 plain, about three miles to the eastward of the Dubarce Gate f , 

 and the hund of the Oodisagor Lake, an opportunity is afi^orded 

 us of examining the nature and structure of the belt of rocks of 

 ihe granitic series, which I have alluded to as occumng in thii? 

 position. In the neighbourhood of Meirta, the plain is elevated 



• The above arrangement of the strata has probably determined the direc- 

 tion of the depression marked by the Bunas River in its course through 

 Mewar. 



■\ See p. 264, No. xxviii. of this Journal. 



