Geology of the Bhnrtpore District. TJ 



rock. The ascent from the S.E. is by a series of steps formed 

 by the outgoings of the strata. ^ oJ 



To the west of this position, the plains are still covered with a^ 

 deep soil, through which protrude hills and hill ranges, many 

 of them exhibiting a bold and craggy outline. The predomi- 

 nating rocks are different modifications of quartz-rock, many of 

 which are ferruginous. These belong to the clayslate series. 



This series appears to \ye continued on towards Delhi. The 

 celebrated hills of Governdhun, near Bindrabund, is in the line 

 of direction, and is composed of a quartz-rock, which occurs 

 abundantly to the westward of Bhurtpoor. It is characterized 

 by enormous cracks and fissures, which often divide the mass 

 into huge apparently detached blocks ; the hills, in many in- 

 stances, appearing to consist of a series of such blocks, piled the 

 one on the other. "rui 



Near the city of Biana, which lies about fifty miles W.S. W. 

 from Agra, there occurs a series of alternations, of a ferruginous 

 quartz rock, with a peculiar conglomerate, containing imbedded 

 agates, agate jaspers, and similar minerals, with adularia, &c. 

 The cementing medium is exceedingly hard and compact, and 

 is itself of the nature of agate. These rocks occupy the rugged 

 termination of a hill-range, which stretches from this point in 

 the direction of Ajimeer. The strata, which are much distorted, 

 are arranged in a similar manner to the older sandstones of 

 Futtypoor Sickree, and probably form the inferior beds of the 

 formation to which the latter belong. The Biana rocks may 

 probably be continued on into the Gewalior country, at least 

 agates, jaspers, and quartzose conglomerates, would appear to 

 be exceedingly abundant in that district. As surface rocks, 

 they occupy but a small space in the Bhurtpore country. 



I have been told that copper mines were at one time worked 

 somewhere in the belt of transition rocks which flanks the 

 Bhurtpore district, — the exact locality I am not acquainted with. 

 Iron, too, is of abundant occurrence in this belt, and might per- 

 haps be manufactured with advantage. 



From the above description it appears that the Bhurtpore 

 district is situated, geologically speaking, to the eastward of the 

 Jeypoor branch of the great primary formation of llajpootana; 

 and that it is separated from this branch by a belt of transition 



