96 W. BLANFORD; WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



Ou the road leading south-west from Mansing-poora 2 miles west of 



Bijawnrs,south-westof ^^^li-ee, towards Sitabuud and Ooukarjee, vertical 



Mansingpoora. g^^tes are seen striking north-east followed by 



brown and reddish sandy beds^ containing quartz and hornstonC; having 



a peculiar appearance, and dipping irregularly towards the north. A 



little further on^ in a nulla, close to the halting 

 Jharpani. 



place called Jharpani, these beds are succeeded 



by banded quartzite of dark colors, with a little jasper, and, 20O yards 



further down .the stream, by breccia, containing red and grey hornstone 



and limestone, the matrix, which constitutes by far the larger portion 



of the mass, being whitish hornstone. These beds roll much, their 



general strike is east-north-east. Beneath them are limestones, similar to 



those seen north of Chandgurh, which extend for a long distance to the 



north and west. They consist of the usual thin, alternating, silicious and 



calcareous, bands ; the hard, silicious laminae weathering out strongly on the 



surface, and being frequently crumpled and wavj^ like the leaves of a book, 



when compressed from the side, although the general lamination is steady. 



South of Tengria hill, and east of Jharpani, there is a considerable 

 development of peculiar soft brecciated beds, some- 

 ° ' what decomposed at the surface. They are doubt- 



less identical with some of those seen on the road from Mansingpoora to 

 Jharpani. They have no appearance of metamorphism, yet contain 

 irregular masses of quartz, similar to those in the lamination of the 

 metamorphics. They also abound in small quartz veins. 



South of Jharpani, on the road to Sitabund, purplish and pale dove- 

 coloured slates are seen ; near them are very fine- 



Soutla of Jharpani. • i i i i i a i i • i n • i 



grained, hard, shaiey sandstones, purplish- or bluish- 

 grey to brown in colour, unaltered and distinctly stratified. Some of the 

 brecciated quartzose rock, so prevalent to the east, also occurs east of the 



road and north-north-west of Leemonpoor. South 



Leeinonpoor. n ^ ■, • n i -i • i 



ol the above-mentioned rocks are some white and 



dove-coloured talcose slates, and then the typical silicious limestone^ of 



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