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ravine wliich crosses these rocks they are seen to dip to the west at 

 very low angles and overlie the white beds of the nummulitic group, 

 the shales which have been previously mentioned as intervening being 

 absent here. The upper part of the lower group as seen here is highly 

 fossiliferous, among others containing the same EcJiinoderms as near 

 Kapfoorassirj a new species of Uupatagus, ScJiizaster, Eclmianthts, Venus 

 granosa, k,c., &e. 



The ground formed by the overlying sandy rocks slopes gradually 

 seaward, and the coast is edged by sand-hills. 



Beneath the sand-hills in the neighbourhood of Peepur temple, 



soft sandstones and calcareous beds dip at very 

 Peepur temple. 



low angles to the west, having among them some 



highly fossiliferous beds, one of which is a foraminiferous rao- similar 

 to that at Nariensir, another a band of branching corals beautifully wea- 

 thered out, a third filled with Tarritella angulata, together with numerous 

 perfectly preserved crabs, Palceocaijnliws rugifer, Stol., (Palteon. Ind. 

 Ser. vii) and other fossils. 



From this rock a slab containing large rib bones was collected, also 

 Venus granosa, Sow., Cardmm triforme. Sow., C. amliguwm, Ostrea 

 angulata, Sow., and muUieostata, d'Arch., a LitJiodomus, Uchinolamjms 

 spheroidalls , Rostellaria Prestwichii, a Cladocora, and several frao-- 

 mentary corals and other fossils. A narrow band of ferruginous con- 

 glomerate similar to that at Nariensir overlies these beds with apparent 

 unconformity. It contains oysters, Rostellaria Prestwichii, Balani and 

 Teredo-like tubes, probably of large Serpulm. 



Overlying this at one spot a still newer-looking deposit formed 

 entii-ely of nummulitic debris occurs, similar to that at Goer and several 

 other places. 



The country to the east of Peepur and in tlie neighbourhood of 



Rutteepar is much intersected by ravines, but the 

 East of Peepur. 



succession from the nummulitic beds upwards 



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