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remains^ nor any proof that they originally grew at the place where they 

 became fossilized or otherwise in its immediate vicinity. 



There is nothing in the adjacent rocks nor in their fossils to fix the 

 narrow zone of these fossils as one which might be elsewhere recognisedj 

 and even if hopes of this could be entertained^ calculations would pro- 

 bably be nullified by the occurrence of several small north-north-west 

 faults or slips which cut out the fossil bands and one larger dislocation, 

 which, striking north-25° — 30°-east was traced from near the same 

 place for some distance, crossing the river obliquely with strong nearly 

 horizontal sandstones overljnng white and gray shales and brown flags 

 on its south side, and similar but more shaly beds on the north, dipping 

 to the west at 10°. The fissure is 3 yards in width, partly filled with 

 crushed shale and partly by a 4 feet dyke of purple trap or concretionary 

 amygdaloidal lava. In other places the same fissure contains ordinary 

 gray intrusive trap. The neighbouring country is in places rocky, in 

 others covered by heavy sand, and the fossiliferous beds could not 

 be traced for any distance. 



To follow this plain further westward would leave behind so much 

 ground undescribed that it will be better to return to the Cbarwar and 

 Katrol range, carrying its description westwards to the country south 

 of the Rojla hills. 



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