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gritty felspatliie sandstone, eonglomeritic in places, and often intersected 

 by hard ferruginous bands with red compact shale here and there. No 

 good sections are seen, and the country is covered with thick jungle. 

 The coarser grits are quarried for millstones, &c. The rocks have, 

 throughout the inlier, a tolerably steady dip to the north, which seldom, 

 if ever, exceeds 5° to 10° at the extreme north of the field ; and, con- 

 sequently, amongst the highest beds exposed, a few plant fossils, 

 principally Glossopieris , were found in a fine compact reddish sandstone. 

 These impressions are red in colour, and devoid of any carbon as near 

 Nagpur, 



The Kutkheri inlier is only 1^ miles south-east of that of Chorkherf. 



It consists of a mere ridge of rocks nearly a mile 



long, striking east-20°-south and projecting above 



the traps, the dip is to the northward. The beds are identical with those 



of Chorkheri. 



The Bazargaon inlier is much larger; it extends 10 miles from 

 east to west, and 5 from north to south. The 

 western part, which is covered with jimgle, is 

 hilly, consisting of flat-topped rises of no great height, and between 

 them valleys filled with sandy soil, in which no rocks are seen in general, 

 even in the streams which traverse them. The hills are composed of 

 horizontal or nearly horizontal beds of coarse white, grey and brownish 

 grits, sometimes blotched and streaked with purple. These are more 

 or less felspathic, and contain pebbles of quartz or quartzite scattered 

 through them, occasionally in sufficient numbers to make the rock a 

 conglomerate, and the ground in places is covered by the pebbles. Mica 

 frequently abounds. 



Fine red and mottled compact shale similar to that of Silewadd is 



seen below the grits on the hill south of Ghorpur. 



No rocks are exposed immediately beneath this, 



but grits, undoubtedly, underlie it, and appear on the lower ground not 



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