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Megpoor, white argillaceous sands, purple and brown fine thin-bedded 

 sandstones, are met with, recalling, in mineral character, the Trichino- 

 poly plant beds. All this tract is included by Captain Grant in his ' sand- 

 stone and clay with coaF, and from this neighbourhood were derived the 

 fossil plants described by Mr. Morris, and already referred to."^ 



Similar beds, horizontal or rolling, but with a general low southerly 

 dip, extend to the Charwar range, a low ridge of hills which crosses 

 the country from east to west about five miles south of Bhooj. This 

 range is escarped on the north side, and slopes very gradually away 

 to the south. At the " ghat''"' on the road to Bhooj, the rocks are 

 horizontal on the crest of the hill, but on the north side they dip ]0°, 

 or 15° to south and south-west. The inclined beds are sandy shales and 

 thin sandstones, varied in coloui^ white, grey, brown or purplish, and 

 containing imperfect plant remains in abundance. At the North base 

 of the hill are blueish-grey shales and hard thin calcareous bands, also 

 with fragmentary plant remains. 



This range of hills is coloured as belonging to the '^ Laminated 

 series" by Captain Grant, and I have heard, from other sources, of 

 Ammonites being found upon it, I could not succeed in finding any at 

 this spot, but I saw fragmentary plant remains in nearly all the beds. 



Sandstone and argillaceous beds continue to Bhooj, having, in 

 general, a low southerly dip, not exceeding 2° or 3°. A sharp dip is seen 

 here and there ; one is met with just north of the blue shales at the 

 foot of the ghat. A similar sharp twist was observed south of the range 

 between the villages of Shirat and Bharapoor. There is frequently much 

 oblique lamination in the sandstones. 



Katrore hill lies about 1 2 miles south-east of Bhooj. It is a por- 

 tion, in fact, of the Charwar range, which, to the east, is less defined 

 than south of Bhooj. Along the north side of this hill, and of those 



* Geol. Trans., 2nd Ser., Vol. V, explanation of Plate XXI. 

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