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To return to the eastern and central part of the Dhar forest and 

 the area occupied by the Bijawurs. Tlie Vindhj^ans, north-west of 

 ■ Country north-west of Chandgurh, stretch northward till they are over- 

 Chandgurh. j^-^ ^^ ^-^^ ^^,^p^ rpj^^ ^^.^ resting- upon them is 



red and sandy^ with numerous fragments of the quartzite sandstone 

 scattered about ; the rock appears here and there at the surface. No 

 sections are seen ; the country is singularly devoid of water-courses ; and 

 is covered;, as usual upon the Vindhyans^ with thin tree jungle. 



The Bijawurs reappear south of the village of Kulree, 13 miles 

 Vi dh an d Bi' ^^^^ ^^ Kataphor. The Vindhyans here form the 

 wurs near Kulree. crest of a small ridge known as Tengria hill^ 



scarped towards the south-west^ and having a low dip of 1° or 2° to the 

 southwards. The beds are mostly thin and rippled; some of them 

 more of a sandstone^ and less of a quartzite than is usual near the base 

 of the Vindhyans in this country. The brow of the hill is formed of 

 thick quartzite - sandstones j these rest upon purple shaley schists^ with 

 distinct^ nearly vertical cleavage^ striking east-10°-20°-north — west to 

 10°-30°-south. The bedding is distinctly seen crossing the cleavage^ and 

 appears to dip to the north-east. Jointing is in two directions^ north-east 

 vertical^ and about east-10°-south dipping to the north at about 25°. 

 Neither cleavage nor jointing are so well marked as in some slates. 



This bed clearly belongs to the Bijawurs. In the overlying Vin- 

 dhyan quartzite^ the cleavage of the slates appears represented to some 

 extent by jointing and by small veins of quartz. 



At the western base of the hill^ in a nulla, vertical bands of veined 

 jasper and hornstone occur, striking east and west^ accompanied by 

 sandy and calcareous beds. The relations of these to the slates are 

 obscure. 



From this spot to near Katkot the whole country is occupied 



Country from Tengria ^J ^^^ I'^^ks of the Bijawur series. It is a wild 



hm to Katkot. jungle, completely uninhabited ; the soil upon 



these rocks, and the Vindhyans being too poor to invite agricultural labor. 



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