Old Red Sandstone of India. 87 



The strata of this great series are, generally speaking, con- 

 formable one to another, though partial exceptions to this rule 

 may here and there be observed, more especially in the vicinity 

 of the highly inclined strata of the primitive class. The waved 

 appearance of" the Cheetore strata is common throughout the 

 whole ofHarvistee^ and is also occasionally observed in the north 

 of Malwa, Meywar, &c. But the deflection from the usual ho- 

 rizontal position is trifling when considered on a large scale. The 

 strata forming the rocky summit of Cheetore, as well as the slates 

 of its base, both, I believe, exhibit this waved aspect. I had 

 not, however, an opportunity of ascertaining the point in a per- 

 fectly satisfactory manner. Similar slates occur in the neighbour- 

 hood, arranged in a perfectly horizontal position. 



The old red sandstones do not exist in this portion of the 

 country, as a well marked and characteristic formation. There 

 are many rocks, however, which future observation may proba- 

 bly identify with members of this series as it exists in England. 

 There is a belt of quartzose rocks which flanks, a little to the 

 westward of Cheetore, ihe newer sandstones, and which is in- 

 terspersed between the latter and the primitive strata of Mey- 

 war. The rocks of this belt, consisting of alternations of a very 

 compact quartzose rock of a whitish or greyish colour, with a 

 kind of red felspathose porphyry of a crumbling nature, and 

 occasionally somewhat conglomerated texture, dipping under an 

 angle of upwards of 45° under the nearly horizontal strata of the 

 north of Malwa, &c. ; but their geology has not yet been mi- 

 nutely examined. A narrow linear range of hills (the Mokun- 

 dura Hills), composed of a coarse-grained sandstone, the predo- 

 minating colour of which is red, and which is arranged in strata 

 inclined like the above at an angle of upwards of 45°, may be ob- 

 served in the south of Harvistee, and separating that district from 

 Malwa. This range, a branch of the Cheetore tabular chain, 

 stretches in a direction NW. and SE. The strata composing it 

 basset out from beneath the horizontally stratified rocks of the 

 Harvistee plateau, and present a bold and bluff escarpment on 

 the Malwa side, the level plains of which latter district abut 

 against the range, and are, generally speaking, in this portion 

 of the country, covered with a deep alluvium, , protruding 

 through which the newer sandstones and limestones are here and 



