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Westwards towards Bhaganwdla the ridge grows wider, the flattening 



of the beds on the top of it more decided, though 

 Towards Bhaganwala. i i • 



undulating, and the strike of the tertiary beds 



trends off to the northwards to enfold the termination of the Eastern. 



Plateau. In this locality, too, the olive sandstones and conglomerates o£ 



the cretaceous zone No. 10 begin to appear. 



The face of the escarpment close to Bhaganwala on the left-hand 

 side of the glen has been fractured, or slippage has 



Bhaganwala. 



taken place, so as to present the appearance of a 

 double set of lower beds, the fractures and their results being of the 

 same character, but on a smaller scale, than those of the Tilla and 

 Chambal scarps already mentioned. Within the little glen at Bhagan- 

 wala the rocks are much disturbed, the lower earthy part of the purple 

 series being seen, and just the top of the gypseous red marl, here not 

 sufficiently saline to impregnate a delicious stream of fresh water flow- 

 ing through the ravine. The banks of this stream are lined with water- 

 cresses, and highly coloured (blue and pink) crustaceans inhabit the water. 



Two paths lead from this gorge up the precipices to more undulating 

 ground above. The best of these passes by a small but picturesque 

 ruin perched upon the clifi" edge, and the other, which is by no means safe 

 or pleasant, ascends obliquely to the eastward the cliff" formed by the 

 magnesian sandstone on the northern side of a deep ravine entering behind 

 the outer hills. The path leads to the bed of a stream, which must form 

 a fine waterfall as it descends over the outcrop. It was dry when visited ; 

 but such is the permeable, jointed nature of the strong magnesian sand- 

 stone group, that a quantity of water (having evidently percolated from 

 the stream bed above) issued from the lower portion of the cliff over 

 which the river falls when the stream is full. The undulating ground 

 above the cliffs is occupied by the red clays, mottled with green, and red 

 stained flags, of the salt-pseudomorph group, from beneath which a lofty 

 bedding-slope of the magnesian sandstone rises at angles of 30° and 40", 

 (See fig. 14, PI. XIII.) 



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