MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 795 



Hills. These latter come up in sheets of rock sloping up to the north- 

 folding over at about 1\ mile from the base, and slanting down at a steeper 

 angle to the fields which fringe the Runn. The valley is drained by a 

 largish stream with many tributaries from the hills on either side — which 

 runs east and curves round the eastern end of the Habye Hills, proceeds 

 N. to the village of Lodai and loses itself in the Runn. It is however only 

 a monsoon river : by February only a few tricklets are moving. 



Nature has been hard at work on the hills with her chisels of rain, wind, 

 cold, &c. The whole mass is seamed and scarred with very deep nullahs 

 which almost from their commencemexit on the summit have cut deep down 

 into the surrounding beds of rocks, leaving ravines with the strata exposed 

 in cliffs. The topmost ridge consisting of the earliest strata is scored and 

 bent by these agents, it runs for a hundred yards or so and falls into a 

 ravine to rise again further on. 



The first thing to do is to decide your geological footing. This is not 

 difficult. Riding along the cart-road along the south edge of the hills, you 

 will probably notice an Ammonite fragment here and there lying among 

 the yellow slabs. 'Hullo' you say : 'that's the duplicate of a Samatra 

 ' Atkleta\' Sure enough it is. It differs somewhat from Waagan's illus- 

 tration, but it is more akin to that than to any other Peltoceras which he 

 gives, and it is on the same level, for further search reveals other Athleta- 

 bed species. Harpoceras dynastes is here : also the big flat plate-like fellow 

 which is remarkably like Waagen's illustrations of Aberrans and of Convener. 

 This species is a marked feature of the Athleta beds along Fakirwadi Ridge. 

 A stroll along this same slope of rock later revealed two Aspidocei-an 

 ponderosum and also a new Lytoceras — of which more later. 



Now along the Fakirwadi Ridge, at Lei-, at Samatra, the Athleta beds are 

 all soft — hollowed away by rains. Here the ridge is of hardstuff — tough 

 yellow slabs with some layers of rounded stones like huge artichoke roots. 

 Still it is all Athleta : on the tops of the ridge was a Harp, dynastes 

 embedded in a slab. And the scarp on the other side of the ridge shows 

 the thickness of the Athleta beds to be here about 70 feet. As you pass 

 eastwards along the cartroad you will see a darker rock protruding in places 

 on your right. Examine this : you will find it to be Dhosa Oolite with 

 great round Stephanoceras (transiens and polypliemus, as far as I can 

 judge) embedded. And further east still where the curve of the strata 

 round to the N. begins, the slab rocks which here form the base of the hills 

 are of D. O., studded with the water worn discs of Asp. perarmatwn, Steph. 

 transiens, Nautilus, &c., all old D. O. friends. An excellent specimen of 

 Per. rota was also found. In a nalla a short way within D.O. rocks there 

 lay a large flat pancake-like Phylloceras with apparently no furrows, but this 

 may have come down from inner beds. 



1=D. O. 4=Sub-Aiioeps. 7=Grey barren rock. 



2=Ath]e 5==Grey mollusc belt. 8=Macrocephalus. 



3=Ancep Perdagatus C?) belt. 



