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very similar to those forming the long slopes of the range to the north 

 are met with, much contorted and occasionally shifted hy small faults. 

 They dip north and south at angles so high as to approach the vertical, 

 the highest dips being as usual to the north. They contain fossils similar 

 to those found along the southern side of Kurreer, and in one bed near 

 the summit a single iish tooth was found. 



At a spot near the passage from Kurreer a spring issues which may 

 account for the wet state of the Runn close by. Its water is said to be 

 so saline as seriously to affect those drinking it, but the rushy ground 

 about it seemed much trampled as if resorted to by cattle. 



GoRA Beer. 

 In Gora Beer, a low island, four or five miles to the southward of the 

 last, are some nearly horizontal undulating thin beds of sandstone, hard 

 ferruginous, silicious, and some more friable, overlying nodular gypseous 

 earthy beds with soft sandy portions. Where these dip at about 2" to the 

 north on the southern shore of the island, they contain numerous 

 Belemnites, some Ammonite fragments ,• and one very perfect valve of a 

 large oyster with deeply notched margin allied to 0. Marshii was found. 



Gangta Bet. 

 In this island hard angular ferruginous rocks with thin shaly layers 

 containing Belemnites were found to overlie dun-coloured calcareous 

 fine grained rock, cut up into rectangular figures by hsematitic bands. 

 It also contained Belemnites and oysters and other shells. Below this 

 purple sandy and calcareous beds with concretionary earthy layers, also 

 fossiliferous, occur, and underneath all, the bulk of the hill is formed of 

 yellow calcareous, red ferruginous, and soft rubbly red, mottled and pale 

 purple, sandstone. Just beneath an old tower on the summit of the hill 

 some of the red beds contain numbers of little BhyncJionella, small 

 oysters, Terehratula, and Trigonim, little Ammonites, &c. ; the assemblaae 

 being varied, but the sizes of all the fossils peculiarly minute. 



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