CHAP. 7.] 



ROCK FORMATIONS. SXJB-NUMMULITIC. 



possess the well known brownish color and glazed surface of this rock. 

 In many instances they are so nodular as to resemble conglomerate ; and 

 some of them overlying the white unctuous rock are blended with it as 

 if by infiltration^ large vertical stalactitic like masses close to each 

 other passing from the laterite downwards into the lower rock^ as seen in 

 the accompanying sketch : — 



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Fig. 1. View on the river at Chaper, 



In Eastern Kutcli the laterites and white beds form nearly all 



^ , that is seen of the group : and here they yield 



Laterites with agates. ^ ± j ^ 



rapidly to atmospheric action^ the ground occupied 

 by them being so weathered into hillocks, resembling the waste-heaps 

 of a foundry, that the rocks are often quite concealed. In other cases 

 wide swelling plains are sheeted all over with a hardened laterite crust 



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