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whole proviiice, and being- accompanied by a map, plates, and list of fossils. 

 The early date of its publication (1837) explains to 



Gl^ant, 



some extent the fact that the author's opinions 

 seem to have been disadvantageously influenced by views which, 

 however orthodox then, have since been discarded with the progress of 

 geological knowledge. Although the paper contains many correct 

 observations, and the author generalised with accuracy when separating 

 some of his rock groups, the officers of the Geological Survey have been 

 compelled to arrive at conclusions very different from his, owing to the 

 leading facts as to the stratification of the rocks and their position not 

 having been perceived or sufficiently regarded, ar>d, perhaps upon the 

 strength of this having been an earthquake region, more than was neces- 

 sary being attributed by him to the direct recent action of volcanic force. 

 No useful end would be served by particularising the various points of 

 disagreement, these frequently resulting from the author's tendency to 

 see in the weather- wasted condition of the ground evidence that it was 

 'shattered' by volcanic agency; while on the whole the paper, though 

 often likely to mislead, calls attention to most of the prominent facts. 



The allusions in Dr. Carter's ' Summary of the Geology of India' to 



that of Kutch are slight, and sometimes inaccurate ; 

 Carter. . , . . , 



certam rocks having been apparently classed in 



his list on the imperfect evidence of inadequate description. 



Mr. Blanford's rapid traverses of the country from south to north 

 and back enabled him to record the first satis- 



Blanford. 



factory views of its geological structure, but 

 did not aflx)rd him sufficient evidence to decide positively whether the 

 Zamia-heaxmg beds were or were not intercalated with the marine series, 

 though he thought it probable that they were. His shrewd suspicion 

 concerning the existence of a fault along the north base of the Charwar 

 hills has been amply proved to be correct. 



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