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Tlie iiioraitiiins in the neighbourhood o? Hurdxcar 

 afforcK but little amusement for the mineralogist ; nor 

 is a fossil to be found in them, impregnated with any 

 other metal tlian iron. 



In some situations, wliere the fall of water has ex- 

 posed their surface, for one or two hundred feet, 

 notliing more is exiiibited than an argillaceous marl, 

 varying in hardness and colour, according to the 

 metallic p-'u-tick's they contain : sometimes this vari- 

 ety is she'-v n very distinctly, stratum .super stratum, 

 the lowest consisting rather of siliceous particles, 

 iiaving loose quartzose sand, with very little earthy 

 mixture; and crumbling to pieces with the least ap- 

 plication of force ; the next a line smooth marl, of a 

 dull chieritious grey, compact, and soapy to the 

 touch : it is quickly difliisible in M'ater, and does not 

 effervesce in acids. The next is of a pale liver- 

 coloured broAvn, possessing properties like those of 

 the preceding one, but somewhat more indurated, 

 and most likely containing more iron : the fourth, 

 Or superior stratum is still brovrner than the last, and 

 exliibits, in its fracture, small shining micaceous 

 particles. In other places, the whole side of a 

 mountain consists of .siliceous sand, mixed with 

 mica and some calcareous earth ; the whole very 

 slightly connected, laminated, and tumbling in large 

 (juantitics into the water-courses below ; sometimes 

 tbund sufficiently indurated to bear the violence of 

 the fall. rVom the place called iYcc/ A'oo.'/</, a wind- 

 ing nulltdi, of about a mile in length, falls into the 

 (ranges a little above Unjimiee : in the bed of it, fi 

 greater variety of stones is found than might be ex- 

 pected from the nature of the hills, in which the 

 source of it lies ; tiuis granite, and opa(]ue cpiartz, 

 of ditferent colours, are found in pretty large round- 

 ed masses : yet no such st(mes, as far as observation 

 can trace, tbrm any part of the mountains, in this 

 neighbourhood. 



The high ground between the bank of the Ganges 



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