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the beds are exposed under arid conditions and the small differences 
of texture and hardness are very boldly shown on the faces of the 
kopjes. It may be that these differences are not sufficiently great 
to cause a separation into sandstones and shales in the sides of the 
ravines, where there is always a considerable amount of moisture. 
These beds were called by Dr. Rogers and myself the “‘Kentani 
Beds”’ in the report referred to above, and they were taken to be an 
KARROO, BEDS WITH Re 
: OUBENODON & 
Fic. 6.—Top of laccolite, Mazeppa Bay, Kentani (just west of where the diorite 
dykes of the Transkei Gap run out to sea at the Koghe River mouth). The bleaching 
and hardening of the strata are well shown in the fallen blocks, where the bedding 
planes have become obliterated. 
eastern facies of the Beaufort Beds. Dr. Rogers and myself 
obtained Oudenodon remains on the coast of Kentani, and there is 
an undescribed Dicynodon skull from Umtata in the Albany 
Museum belonging to the same horizon. The specimen was col- 
lected by Mr. E. J. Dunn; I submitted it to Mr. Watson, who 
informed me that the species was of the type found in the lower 
Beaufort Beds. On the Umkomazan River in Natal Dr. Broom* 
*R. Broom, “Fossil Reptilian Remains from Natal,” Third Report Geological 
Survey of Natal and Zululand, London, 1907. 
