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one of the latter a few shells of Melajiia were found. The uppermost 

 bed is a hard coarse sandstone, which dips below the trap. 



West-north-west of Belkera_, in a similar section, more of these 

 shells occur. Besides the Melania, (which is allied to M. quadrilineataj 

 Sow., but differs in sculpture) a small bivalve, apparently a Gorbicula, 

 is found. These fossils are only met with in the upper portion of 

 the beds, those which appear to represent the rocks of Bagh and 

 Lameta. 



Before returning to the eastern edge of the map, a few words 



Southern scarp of °^ ^^® ^^^^® °^ *^® Gawilgurh hills west of this 



Gawilgurli range. j^ay be added. 



The sandstones die out just north of Ellichpoor, and thence to the 

 westward trap hills appear to rise both north and south of the line of 

 fault ; the former, however, being by far the higher, and rising at Chikulda 

 to 3,775 feet above the sea, while one peak a little farther west is 3,975 

 feet above the sea, or about 3,000 feet above the plain of the 

 Poorna valley."^ The fault itself cannot be traced with clearness farther 

 to the west, but that the line of disturbance, very possibly accompanied 

 by a throw of the beds, stretches along the south scarp of the hills, is 

 proved by the steady dip of the traps to the north along that line, 

 a dip which only continues for a few miles to the northwards. The 

 hills gradually diminish in height to the west. Along their base or 

 at no great distance the alluvium comes in, being very much more 

 stony and gravelly in their neighbourhood, as might be expected. 



On the top of the range, at Chikulda, (see Plate 5) the soil is red 



and lateritic looking, but no absolute laterite was 

 Chikulda. 



met with so far as the hills were explored. 

 At Chichari, north-east of Jamod, a vein of calcareous breccia, 

 . striking north-10°-east and underlying 80° to 



the westward, was seen. This is like the veins 

 in the Burwanee hills, and perhaps denotes a small fault. 

 * The heights from the map of the Topographical Survey. 



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