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Poorna, the whole course of which has been through the great Berar 

 plain. The Taptee leaves the Khandeish plain a few miles below 

 Kookurmoonda, and for 60 miles passes through the hilly country of 

 Wajpoor and Mandvee ; below the town of Mandvee it leaves the hills^ 

 and runs thence through the alluvial plain of Surat to the sea. 



Chapter 4. — List oe Formations. 



The formations which will be described in the following pages may 



be classed under the following heads ; the groups being enumerated in 



descending order in this case^ although in the description of each group 



the reverse plan will be adopted : — 



Post Tertiary. 9. Newer forms of alluvium and surface soil. 



8, Alluvial deposits of rivers and of the sea 



coast in Guzerat. 

 Tertie-rv 



7. Older tertiary beds^ including the Num- 



mulitics. 



6. Deccan and Malwa traps. 



Cretaceous. ^ (a) IntertrappeauB. 



5. Eagh beds and Mahadeva group. 



4. Vindhyan series. 



3. Biiawur series. 

 Azoic. ^ "^ 



2. Champaneer beds. 



1. Metamorphie series. 

 None of these names^ except that of the Champaneer group^, are new. 

 All the others have been employed before in these Memoirs, and when- 

 ever it appears necessary, the reasons for adopting them in the present 

 instance will be specified in each case, and the nameC hampaneer group 

 will be explained in the section relating to those beds. In classing 

 together the four lowest series as Azoic, it is intended solely to employ 

 a term which, while expressing the fact that all have hitherto proved 

 unfossiliferous, leaves the question of their geological horizon quite open. 



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