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" stated abovej it is at all events newer than the eo'al beds ; and this 

 " conclusion is also borne out by its imbedded fossils". 



It ^vill be perceived that the opinion given is by no means decisive, 

 no case being quoted where the two formations were actually seen or traced 

 into contact. It was, therefore, highly desirable that a more careful 

 examination of the Cutch section should be made, in order to put an end 

 to this doubt. However, until the Survey was extended to Western India, 

 at the close of 1862, the great distance of Cutch from all places where the 

 surveyors had been engaged prevented any examination of it from being 

 made. In the following year (November 1863), an opportunity occurred. 

 I had been deputed to Sind, at the request of the Government of Bombay, 

 for the purpose of examining the reported coal of Lynyan,* and when 

 returning to Bombay, instead of going directly from Kurrachee, it was 

 decided that I should go round the coast to Mandavee in Cutch : I then 

 spent about a fortnight in a rapid traverse of the country. 



3. Monte followed. — From Mandavee I went through Bhooj to 

 Jooria on the banks of the Runn, devoting a day on my road to the exa- 

 mination of Katrore hill, in the Charwar range. From Jooria, I marched 

 westwardly along the edge of the Bunn to Charee, and thence I re-crossed 

 the province from north to south to Mandavee, whence I proceeded to 

 Bombay. I thus examined two sections of the rocks which occur in the 

 province, and which appear to have, throughout the greater portion of 

 Cutch, a general dip from north to south (see section) . 



Before proceeding to give the conclusions at which I arrived, and" 

 which differ to an important extent from those of Captain Grant, it will 

 be well to state in detail the observations upon which they are founded. 

 It should be borne in mind that the special object of my visit being to 

 trace out the relations between the Jurassic marine beds and those con- 

 taining Zamise, my whole time was devoted to this object, and facts 



* See preceding paper. 

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