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agates, and ferruginous grit. The thickness of the rocks, as exposed in 

 quarries, is from 15 to 20 feet. 



To the southward in the direction of their dip are some rubbly 

 gravels and tough argillaceous rocks with cylindrical kunkury ramifica- 

 tions, the uppermost bed being soft reddish-yellow and sandy. 



These beds are not seen further south than the deserted village of 

 Chota Bharaya, and alluvial deposits occupy the ground. 



Similar upper tertiary rocks to those just now described are seen 

 again near the village of Khanduka. 



At Puttree the ground is low, formed of decomposing traps, and 

 rising gently to the hills, here receding to the north. About a mile south 

 of the town a small remnant of the laterite occurs. 



Similar decomposed traps extend to the eastward, but south of 

 Wowar the upper tertiary beds are a^ain seen 



Wowar. " 



resting unconforraably on a very uneven surface 

 of the trap, which forms the bed of the stream there. The bottom bed 

 of the tertiary group is here a coarse gravelly conglomerate with peb- 

 bles of trap and other rocks in a white limy matrix. It is but two 

 feet thick, and is succeeded by five feet of white sandstone varyino- to 

 gritty, with some shell fragments in the upper part. In some places 

 between these an irregular laj^er of small fossil oysters occurs. These 

 beds continue for some distance down the stream, gaining but slicrhtly 

 in thickness, and are overlaid by brown arenaceous clay, white mica- 

 ceous thinly laminated silts, and red sandy earthy beds with conglomeritic 

 gritty layers. 



At the town of Buddresur, some hard coarse shelly grits and gravels 

 fine sandstone and conglomerate of the same erouD. 



Buddresur. o r^ 



occur, crossed by a line of disturbance along 

 which some trap was seen, but too indefinitely to be determined whether 

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