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square to 80 square miles, are met with scattered throughout the trap 

 area to the south, as far as the Nerbudda, and in one instance to the 

 south of that river, upon its tributaiy the Deva, these inliers are exposed 

 in a very peculiar manner, which will be described in treating- of the 

 tract in question. Outliers upon the metamorphic rocks to the north 

 of the trap boundary are, on the other hand, rare. One, however, is met 

 with upon the top of E-uttunmul hill at a considerable distance from any 

 traps. 



To the eastward, about Allee, the same fringe of the cretaceous beds 

 is met with, but north of this, the traps of Malwa cover the ground 

 to the north of Rajpoor, and although a similar border of cretaceous 

 rocks is found along their edge, it is narrower, the beds being much 

 thinner. The traps gradually cover the whole valley about Bagh, and near 

 this point, between Bagh and Bajpoor, are some very large tracts of 

 cretaceous beds. Fm-ther to the eastward, within the trap area, are 

 several inliers of Metamorphics and Bijawurs surrounded by the cretaceous 

 rocks more or less completely; these continue nearly as far as Mandoo. 

 The Bagh beds have thus been traced, almost continuously, for about 

 100 miles, when a break occurs ; trap alone occupying the valley from 

 a little east of Mandoo till close to Burwai, a distance of about 50 miles. 

 At Burwai the older rocks reappear from beneath the trap, and around 

 their edge, for a considerable distance, conglomerates and sandstones occur, 

 which there can be very little hesitation in referring* to the Bagh beds. 

 To the extreme extent of these rocks to the eastward it will be necessary 

 to refer again when treating of their connexion with the Mahadevas. 



In mineral character there is great variation. At Bagh itself the 



Mineral character at section lias been described more or less accurately 



''^^^' by several previous observers. It consists of 15 



to 30 feet of unfossiliferous or nearly unfossiliferous nodular limestone, 



resting upon sandstones, fine and coarse, white to purple in colour, and 



conglomerate. Some of the sandstone beds are more or less argillaceous 



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