2 GEOLOGY OF SIND. 



deposits, - the geology was only cursorily referred to. The object of the 

 present remarks is to describe at somewhat greater 

 length the sections examined, and to point out 



briefly their bearing upon om' previous knowledge of the geology of 



Sind. 



The only previous observer who has left any record of the geology 



of the neighbourhood of Kotree is Captain Vicary, who traversed part 



of the country rapidly on his march from Kotree to Sehwan."^ 



2. — Tract of country examined. 



It is first necessary to state how far my investigations extended. 



Leaving Kotree I marched up the river bank to Bhada, about 10 

 miles. The alluvium, west of the river, is here 

 very narrow, and immediately beyond it there 

 arise low hills of white compact limestone, aboimding in Alveolina. 



IVom Bhada I marched 15 miles north-west to Lynyan. After 

 remaining there for two days, I marched about 30 miles further to the 

 north-west to a gorge in the Eri Hills at a place called Rani-ki-kot or 

 E-unneekote. So far the journey, except at one place between Bhada and 

 Lynyan, had been across a broad plain. Runneekote is in the first high 

 range of the hills which border the plain to the west. The plain is 

 known as the Vira; the hills as the Eri range. 



From Runneekote I returned due east to the Indus, about 15 miles: 

 and thence dropped down the river in a boat to Kotree. 



* Quarterly Journal of Geological Society, London, Vol. Ill, p. 341. In Vol. VI of the 

 Journal of tlie Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, p. 182, Dr. Carter described 

 a series of geological specimens from the Lynyan, illustrating a section of the rocks forwarded 

 by H. Inman, Esq., who superintended the works at the colliery. Mr. Inman, in his sections, 

 represented the rocks forming the hills at the sides of the valley as resting unconformably 

 upon the deposits associated with the coal. I could not see the alleged unconformity dis- 

 tinctly, and found that Mr. Inman, in his section, which I saw, had exaggerated the dip of 

 the valley beds. 



