140 W. BLANFORD, WESTERN IITOIA. [PART II* 



The section seen in the Baghnee river^ south of Bagh, presents bat 



little interest, though the stream traverses cre- 



Section in Baghnee taceous beds for a distance of 3 or 4 miles. Almost 

 river. 



the only rock seen is sandstone. The dip is so low 



that it appears to coincide with that of the bed of the stream, and the 



same or nearly the same section is exposed throughout. Opposite the 



town of Bagh^ this section consists of — 



Nodular flesh colored limestone, apparently unfossi- 



. liferous, or only containing ob- 

 Section of cretaceous 

 rocks opposite Bagh. scure casts of shells ... 15 to 20 feet. 



Fine white and purple sandstones or coarse gritty 

 beds. The base consists of conglomerate, shaley pur- 

 plish sandstone, and coarse falsebedded gritty sandstone. 

 Some of the shaley beds are calcareous, and contain 

 a few imperfect bivalves, ill preserved ... 80 to 100 feet. 



In the sandstones, bands of small pebbles of jasper, quartz, and 

 quartzite occur, the latter apparently derived from the Vindhyans. 



In these beds are the caves of Bagh, remarkable as being almost the 



only Buddhist caves in India, except those of 

 Caves of Bagli. 



Bhobaneshwar in Cuttack, which are m sandstone. 



All the other caves of Western India are in trap. The rocks at the 



caves are fine purplish and white sandstone and silty sand, falsebedded 



and strongly rippled on the surface of the beds.* 



Just north of the village of Bhilahee, the cretaceous rocks terminate 



abruptly. Their uppermost bed is here a peculiar 



South boundary of ere- . i • j. i i • i 



taceous beds near Bhila- limestone, having a brecciated appearance, which 

 rests upon coarse rather vitreous sandstone weather- 

 ing into knobs. The apparent brecciation of the limestone is perhaps 



* I have before shown the mistake committed by Dr. Martin Duncan in Quarterly 

 Journal, Geological Society, Vol. XXI, p. 350, in siipposing that Captain Keatinge's fossils 

 ■were derived from this spot. 



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