110 W. BLANFOUD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



hornstone, also abounding in shells. It is not quite clear that this bed 

 is distinct from the upper one, but it has much the appearance of being 

 so, and it is highly probable that the fragments found on the top of the 

 Ghat are from a still higher bed. 



The principal sedimentary band was seen in place at Soorgaon, and 

 traced by fragments further. The same, or another occurs also south 

 of Keiree, on the road leading south to the Taptee (the Baitool and 

 EUichpoor road), and again south of the river, near the top of the Ghat 

 ascending to the table land. It abounds in fossils everywhere. 



The traps "south of Baitool are mostly horizontal until the neigh- 



Dip of traps south of ^^^^^^^^^ ^f the scarp at the verge of the Berar 



^^^*°°^- plain. The characters of the beds of that scarp 



will be best described hereafter in treating of the Poorna and Wurda 



vallies. 



To the west of Baitool the metamorphic rocks disappear gradually 

 beneath the trap, not being all covered up at 

 ^^ ^ ^^ °° ■ once as to the south, but stretching in vallies far 



within the trap hills. Between the two series also in this direction con- 

 glomerates and sandstones are met with, which represent similar beds 

 in the Dhar forest and elsewhere, and are almost certainly represent- 

 atives of the Bagh beds. 



Commencing north-west of Baitool, the sandstone represented 

 on the very edge of Mr. Medlicott^s map near 

 Bton"?'^" nS-west'^'^of Koprabanee is about 100 feet thick, coarse and 

 baitool. conglomeritic in part, and resembling that on the 



top of Ruttunmul hill, north of Chota Oodipoor, and that of the Dhar 

 forest. Like them it contains small pebbles of red jasper. It forms, 

 near Koprabanee, a small plain on the top of a rise of metamorphic 

 rock. It is represented by Mr. Medlicott as Mahadeva, a circumstance 

 which is in favor of the identification of that formation with the cre- 

 taceous beds of Bagh. 



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