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just now mentioned occur close by, but their stratification, if they 

 possess any, could not be traced. 



The arrangement of the lateritic rocks here is very obscure and 

 peculiar ; they are just of the same general aspect 



Volcanic lateritic rocks. .,,. iin.i , 



as the volcanie-lookmg beds ot the sub-nummu- 

 litic group. Like them, too, they are associated with traps undistin- 

 guishable from the stratified trap group, and on one side of the range 

 of hills appear to succeed these in their usual order, while on the other, 

 they have strongly the appearance of being overlaid by the traps of this 

 neighborhood ; faults also seem to add to the obscurity of the locality. 



It is quite possible that some of the unstratified red volcanic- 

 looking rocks may have been extruded here, while there is certainly 

 nothing in their general relations as deposits elsewhere to render it 

 improbable that both varieties of the volcanic flows might be inter- 

 stratified at this place. 



Near some small rocky hills south of Damurka, the soft white and 



ferruginous obliquely laminated sandstones of the 

 Damurka. 



superior jurassic groups, dipping slightly to the 



south, are interstratified with grey and whitish grey shales in which 

 impressions of Alethopterls occur, being found, as usual, in one or two 

 thin layers only. At the highest parts of the hills highly silicious liver- 

 eolom'ed quartzite-like rock, such as that mentioned near Kukrooa, forms 

 caps, and some of the beds appear to be sharply contorted, and present 

 alternations of white and purple claystone, but are much concealed by 

 their own debris. 



In, ferruginous clays and coarse sandstones near the temple of 



Gunna Peer are decomposing bands of bria-ht 

 Gunna Peer. i o & 



red haematite ; and purple, reddish, and white shales 

 underlie a thick band of soft, white, sandstone with red layers, in which 

 a Gosain's cave has been excavated just beneath the temple. 



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