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due to silicious infiltration, much of which is seen further west in the 



uppermost beds of the cretaceous series. 



The town of Bagh itself rests upon BijawurSj a peculiar triangular 



patch of which is let in by two faults, one striking 

 Bijawurs of Bagh. 



about north-20°-west, the other nearly north-west, 



the latter coinciding with the foliation of the gneiss and the cleavage 



lamination of the Bijawurs, These two faults meet^ and the BIjawurs are 



cut off about 7 miles north-north-west of Bagh_, near the villages of 



Borekooa and Chundawud, while to the south they disappear beneath 



the cretaceous sandstone and. trap. As is usual in areas the surface of 



which is composed of Bijawur rocks, (unless thick deposits of alluvial soil 



supervene,) this tract is a jungle, the soil worthless for agriculture, and 



the surface hilly and irregular. 



Many of the kinds of rock which occur in the Bijawurs are well 



seen close to the town of Bagh. There is not a good section in the 



bed of the Baghnee which, indeed^ only traverses these rocks for 



a short distance, but the hills around the town are rocky, and the jungle 



in general not sufficiently high to conceal the rocks. The hill on which 



the fort stands is partly composed of red brecciated quartzite with iron 



ore, the latter chiefly brown hematite. At the south end of the hill, 



close to the town, and on the east side, the bedding of these rocks is 



distinctly seen. They dip at 70° to east-30°-north and rest on limestone. 



To the west they turn over and dip the reverse way, so that the hill is 



the axis of a small anticlinal. The bedding cannot, however, be traced 



to any distance in this direction, indeed it is only conspicuous in the 



jaspery beds, and a short distance from the hill it is completely obscured 



by cleavage ; while the rocks are a confused mixture of slates, limestone, 



breccia and trap as far as the boundary fault, which is not distant. On 



the east, however, the strike of the bedding appears closely to coincide 



for some distance with that of the cleavage foliation, and the following 



beds come in upon the breccia. 



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