12 GEOLOGY 



Agent at Bhooj,' — to whose kindness and assistance I was much indebted 

 for aid in traversing the country, — gave me a slab of ferruginous sand- 

 stone^ containing Ostrea Marshii and other marine fossils^ which he 

 had found forming part of a bed close to the town of Bhooj. He took 

 me to the spot_, but v/e did not succeed in finding the exact stratum, tlie 

 rocks being much concealed by sand. However, sandstone precisely 

 similar in appearance^ although unfossiliferous, occurred in other beds 

 close by, and they were unquestionably intercalated in the sandstone 

 and shaly beds of the plain on which the town stands. These beds are 

 marked by Captain Grant as belonging to the Zamia-bearing series, 

 and I believe he is perfectly correct, as they have the characteristic 

 mineral character of that formation. 



But even if the apparent intercalation should prove, on closer 

 examination, to be due to faulting', I still think there is every probability 

 that all the rocks, both marine and Zamia-bearing (the last being pro- 

 bably fresh water) belong to one general series, the age of which is 

 clearly marked by the marine fossils. The sole argument of any weight 

 alleged by Captain Grant in favour of the more recent age of the 

 marine beds was certainly founded in error, and I cannot help thinking 

 that Captain Grant may have been misled by his memory, when he 

 wrote of the greater general horizontality of the marine strata, when 

 compared with the beds associated with the coal. Of course my observa- 

 tions having been very much less extensive, I cannot speak very posi- 

 tively, but amongst the places I visited were all Captain Grant^s principal 

 fossil* localities, and at all of those, singularly enough, the marine bods 

 were much disturbed. At Charee, as I have shown, the most fossiliferous 

 beds dip at 10° to 30°. At Jooria the dip is 30°, and even more in places, 

 and there is a sharp anticlinal, and, at the base of Katrore hill, I found 

 Ostrea and Trigonice abundant in beds dipping at from 50° to 80°. 

 Now the usual dip of the Zamia beds does not exceed 5° ; doubtless, 

 they are disturbed in places, and dip at high angles, but the marine 

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