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north of Burwai, the Jam Ghat north of 

 Mundlaisur, and the Ghara Ghat by which 

 the Bomba_y and Agra road ascends to 

 the table land are the only important 

 roads. The Jam Ghat is very interest- 

 ing, as the road descends zigzaging down 

 the face of the cliff and enables the 

 characters of the rocks to be examined. 

 The beds are extremely well marked and 

 14 distinct terraces* may be counted^ as 

 stated by Dangerfield. As the descent is 

 ' about 1,500 feet, this would make the 

 successive terraces a little more than 100 

 feet apart on an average. But in fact the 

 higher terraces are much nearer together 

 than the lower. The number of the lava 

 flows which compose the scarp by no 

 means necessarily corresponds to the 

 number of terraces ; it is probably much 

 greater, since a terrace is only formed 

 where two beds of different degrees of 

 hardnees come together; if two^ three, 

 or more beds, similar in mineral charac- 

 ter, succeed each other, no distinction 

 would be observed in their weathering*. 

 Two of the terraces above mentioned, 



* This is the number given by Dangerfield, and 

 which I counted myself, but other observers have 

 thought the number diiferent. Some are much less 

 ipparent than others j many are not seen in every 

 !^pur of the hills. 



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