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Art VI. On the Geology of the Tapteb and Nerbudda valleys 

 and some adjoining Districts; ly William T. Blanford, 

 Assoc. Roy. School of Mines, f. g. s., c. m. z. s., &c., Deputy 

 Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India (pp. 1 — 223, 

 with plates I — VIII, and 16 woodcuts in the letter press) ... 163 



Summary of Contents. 



PART I. — Geology of the country generally considered. 



Chaptee 1. — Introductory. — Area described — Political divisions included — 

 Maps — ^Arrangement of the present report — Nature of present map — Plan 

 adopted in arranging report — Time occupied in survey — Survey officers 

 engaged, (p. 163)* 



Chaptee 2. — Previous observers. — "No general account of the area ever pub- 

 lished — Writers noticed in previous report — Some tracts better described 

 than others — Sub-division of previous notices according to area : 1, Ner- 

 budda vaUey ; Dangerfield, Stewart, Frazer, Jacquemont, Stirling, Abbott, 

 Malcobnson, Carter, Keatinge, Oldham, Impey, Medlicott, Theobald, 

 Martin Duncan — 2, Countries south of Nerbudda valley; Voysey, Jenkins, 

 Finnis, Bradley, Hislop — 3, Eastern Guzerat ,• Copeland, Lush, FuUjames, 

 Hiigel, Ethersey, Nicholson, Falconer, Malcolmson, Carter, Buist, Rogers- 

 Some of the geological questions which required solution at the commence- 

 ment of the present survey — Eelations of nummulitics to traps, &c. — Ee- 

 lations of Bagh beds to traps, and to sandstones of the Nerbudda vaUey — 

 Questions as to origin, &c., of traps and intertrappeans, &c., (p. 166) 



Chaptee 3. — Physical Geography and its relation to the Geology. — General 

 character of Western and Central India — Table land and watersheds- 

 Alluvial plains in Nerbudda and Taptee valleys and their elevation — Eiver 

 gorges — Mural scarps — Features of Satpoora hills — GawOgurh hiUs — 



* The numbers in parenthesis refer to the paging at the bottom of each page, which is continuous 

 throughout the volume. 



