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suggestion I have made would lead to preservation of game, especially of 

 the buffalo, I shall not have written in vain. 



ST. G. de CARTERET. 

 July 1912. 



No. XXXIV.— NOTES ON CUTCH AMMONITES. 



II 



In my last notes, on the Fakirwadi Belteram beds, I drew attention to the 

 peculiar arrangement of the hiUs bordering the great Cutch fault. They 

 fall into a string of circles, semicircles and curves so much so that one is 

 sometimes inclined to think that there is not so much fault here as a steep 

 dive of the North side of an anticline under the later beds. However in 

 other places the fault theory seems more probable. Possibly the formation 

 of the fault had a good deal to do with the circling of these hills. 



This ^ Circling ' is not confined to the Fakirwadi beds. 



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CHARWAR H/LLS 



At each of the places named, Samatra, Bharasar, Fakirwadi and Ler I 

 find the Ammonite ridges or hills turned in curves or circles, the North 

 descent of the anticlines being often visible (perhaps only as a low broken 

 off outcrop) dipping steep North and often clean gone, as if the curved hill 

 had been shorn down across its middle by a fault. 



Of Ler more later : of Fakirwadi I have written : of Bharasar this much 

 at present : the outcrop here bends round at its East extremity in a most 

 graceful curve : you might call it the end of a stadium. The South side 

 dives under Charwar, the East dives down Eastwards, and the North side 

 dives down to the North for a few hundred yards and then disappears. 

 How far the Southerly exposure extends towards Samatra, I cannot say ; 

 I have followed it out for about 1^ miles, and it was still running West- 

 ward when I left it. 



To-day I write of Samatra, which again has its circle or stadium. The 

 shape of the Samatra outcrops of Ammonite beds is roughly this. A sort 

 of 2 mile long stadium. Its beds dip quaquaversally, but I am not quite 

 svire how far they extend to the South-East and South- West. All the 



