112 W. BLANFORDj WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



metamorphics south of the Taptee. They are constantly conglomeritic, 

 containing pebbles of various coloured quartzites, red jasper^ &c. They 

 are not felspathic, nor do they contain calcareous or ferruginous concre- 

 tions. At Boree^ close to the road leading through Jeen to Keiree, some 

 of the sandstone is so much mixed with silica as to be in part converted 

 into chert. This has been shown to be a common character in the Bagh 

 and Lameta beds. 



There is a peculiar inlier of metamorphics and sandstone exposed in 



the Taptee south-west of Baitool. To the north 

 Inlier in Taptee. ' 



about Chiklee, Alurapoor, Bcc, the traps are hori- 

 zontal, but they roll over to the south just north of the river, and the 

 lower rocks are, for the most part, concealed by them. The Taptee, 

 however, runs in a deep narrow gorge, in the bottom of which the infra- 

 trappean rocks are exposed again. At the eastern extremity, which is near 

 Keiree, no sandstone occurs, but a few miles to the west it comes in, and 

 continues to be exposed further to the west than the metamorphics are. 

 On the road from Baitool to EUichpoor this trough of metamorphic rocks 

 is crossed, and the base of the trap south of the river appears to be 

 decidedly lower than to the north, showing the sharp southern dip of the 

 base of the traps. Here the river runs from east to west, but a little 

 higher up it runs from the south, and, just above the turn, the traps 

 alone occur in the river bed, the top of the metamorphics having dipped 

 iinder them. 



Some fair sections of the sandstone are seen in the Taptee. The 



beds q.ppear to vary much in thickness. About 



SecSoi*°'''' '"^ '^^^^'^ ^^"^^ ^^®y ^^^® ^ considerable vertical develop- 

 ment ; a little farther to the west they must be 

 much thinner. The beds are in general compact, often very hard, white 

 or brownish in colour, and occasionally of various shades of red, the 

 uppermost beds especially being often variegated with different tints, redj 

 orange, and brown. Near Hatimati soft argillaceous beds occur of a 

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