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The dip of the beds is from 10° to 30°. They pass, apparently, 

 \inder a series of beds, between Charee and Jog-ee Arul, in which marine 

 fossils are scarce, though occasionally occurriiig- ; the mass of the beds 

 being- white and browTi sandstones with variegated sandy clays. Frag-- 

 mentary plant remains are met with in shaley beds at Jogee Arul. 



From Jogee Arul, I visited the trap hill Denodur, called a volcano."^ 

 Thence to the southward coarse sub-horizontal sandstones prevail with 

 numerous isolated hills of trap, apparently intrusive. At KukkurLit, 

 I found, at length, in some carbonaceous shale, vegetable fossils suffi- 

 ciently well preserved to be distinguishable. The following could be 

 recognized : — , 



Cycadb^. — Talceozamia CutcJiensis , Morris : very abiindant. 

 acutifoliiim, Morr. 

 Bengalensis, Oldliam. 



CoNiFEE^. — 'BracliyfliyUiim ? f sp. common. 

 Taccodites ? sp. new. 

 Small Walchia like stems (perliaps Zfycopodiies affinis, Morris). 



FiLiCES. — Tceniopteris sp. fragmentary, (it may be T. ovalis). 

 Sphenopteris ? sp. common. 



There is no change in the rocks south of this, until the traps are 

 reached just south of Seesagud. The latter are precisely the same there 

 as further to the east ; they dip in the same direction, and must be of very 

 nearly the same thickness. At Syree lateritic clay comes in resting 

 upon the trap as at Asambya. It is conglomeratic, containing fragments 

 of trap, scoriaceous lava, sandstone and clay. Above it are j'^ellow and 

 brown clays, all more or less ferruginous, and white sandstones with 



* It is really a mass of intrusive trap, and may be the nucleus of an old volcano, but 

 most certainly it is not a volcanic cone, and the stories of its having been in a state of 

 eruption in 1819 are fictions. Captain Grant, although he considered Denodur a volcano 

 disbelieves these tales. 



t It is, I think, possible that a badly preserved specimen of this plant may have beeu 

 the Fucoides dichotomus of Morris. Geo!. Trans., 2nd Ser., A^ol. II, PI. xxi. Fig. 7. It closely 

 resembles a -species equally abundant in the Jubbulpoor beds and may be identical. 



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