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and a fiue dark shale in its lower parts. Prodtieti, Sjnri/eri, Corals^ and 

 several other fossils occur in it. 



Overlying this group are 100 feet or so of flaggy limestone crowded 

 with sections of Ceratites, BelleropJion, he, and passing upwards into 

 80 feet of shales, weathering to a greenish clay, and containing thin 

 layers of limestone and flaggy sandstone, hard and rugged, with annelid 

 tracks and other markings on their surfaces. Among these some more 

 prominent bands of sandstone also occur, the whole representing the 

 triassic group. 



In the lower part of the Jurassic beds, a thick, rusty, soft sandstone 

 contains carbonaceous markings^ and a few plant fragments sometimes 

 resembling fronds of ferns. These are more numerous, though still 

 indefinite, in a two-feet bed of shale which overlies the sandstone 

 and passes beneath some hard calcareous bands, the whole, so far, 

 being about 110 feet in thickness. Above these beds are 230 feet of 

 grey and yellowish, compact, splintery, cherty limestone, overlaid by 

 the upper, sandy, flaggy, rusty and variegated beds of this Jurassic 

 formation, in which contortion and crushing often obscure the succes- 

 sion. In the very highest part of the group are 60 or 70 feet of 

 dark, compact, fossiliferous limestone, full of bivalves, succeeded by 

 10 feet of lumpy, grey, compact limestone containing Corhula, and 

 divided by a few bands of greyish calcareous sandstone. A small blank 

 space then occurs in the section, above which are red haematitic and blue 

 shaly bands, passing up into 30 feet of thin, earthy, nummulitic limestone, 

 immediately succeeded by 300 feet of the more solid beds of that 

 formation, which seems in this vicinity to have much more than its 

 usual thickness. 



One of the wildest glens in the country^ is that called the Bargir 



Barffir Teas and ^'^^' ^^ ^^ ^^^ practicable to ascend this ravine 

 neighbouring hiUs. f^.^^ ^^g mouth, the way being barred by clifis of 



* The hills on the south-west side of the Tredian group between the neighbourhood 

 of Ghari and that of Sw^s seem, in addition to numerous others given them, to possess the 

 two names " Jella" and '• Bargir." 



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