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The sandstones about Rajur are mostly of the friable open order, with 



occasional iron bands, and thin-bedded vitreous sili- 

 Rajur. Absence of red • -■ , m . 



argillaceous shales. cious sandstones. 1 here is a total absence of red 



argillaceous shales and sandstones such as are found 



in the north of the field (in the Chanda district and near Won), and 



there are apparently no clays. 



A moderately fair section of the Kamthis is seem in the Wardha. 

 Section of the River The highest rocks are those in the reach opposite 

 Katwali, and here one or two small bands of dark- 

 looking sandstone are colored by manganese. From this point, down the 

 river, coarse, white, yellow and brown sandstones are met with, many of 

 of which when hastily examined might be supposed to be Barakars, but 

 they are not so compact as rocks of that group are ; and now and again 

 the ferruginous bands which are a very good index of the Kamthis are 

 seen. 



On the left side of the Wardha, between Nardhilri and Tohogaon, 



Tohogaon fossil trees. WWe "^ Sandstoiies « ro P ™t, dipping east-Uorth- 

 east to north-east, two stems of fossil trees were 

 observed a short way inland. One of them is very large, being three feet 

 across ; the other is small. I cannot connect these stems with the Kam- 

 this, as they were lying on the bare surface of the rocks, and had evident- 

 ly been transported from the original bed in which they were once enclosed. 

 Hazarding an opinion as to the formation they belong to, I believe they 

 are either of Lameta or intertrappean age,— most probably Lameta, as 

 many blocks of fossil-wood have been found in the deposits of that 

 period. 



Sandstones occur near Sindi having a semi-Barakar appearance, 



but their brownish color and a few straggling iron 

 Sindhi sandstone like i -, . ? . . . 



Barbara. baD ds are indications of Kamthis. A seam of coal 



was reported to exist at Sindi; but unless the 



mineral character of the Kamthi series has strangely altered, no coal could 



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