144 W. BLANFORD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaUT II. 



The fault running- north-west and south-east is in places, as near 



Ekra, marked by a mass of vein quartz. Its direc- 

 tor th- east boundary 

 fault of Bijawui-s near tion is, in general, nearly parallel to the cleavage 

 Ekra. 



of the Bijawurs and the foliation of the gneiss, 



but not always exactly so, the cleavage near the fault being occasionally 



bent and twisted, showing that it is of anterior date to the faulting. 



The other fault bounding the Bijawurs to the south-west is well 



„ ^, . , . seen in the Bag-hnee, south of the town of Bagh. 



Soutn-west Doundary . 



fault. The Bijawur series is there represented by the 



typical laminated limestone, which abuts against .greenstone belonging 

 to the metamorphics, but only distinguished from similar beds in the 

 Bijawurs by the granite veins and laminae of quartz which it contains. 

 Just east of it gneiss with granite veins comes in. 



This fault disappears to the south beneath the cretaceous rocks ; to 

 the north it runs for several miles up the valley of the Baghnee in a 

 straight line, striking about north-30°-west, cutting across the foliation 

 of the gneiss and the cleavage of the Bijawurs. The fault itself is a 

 mere crack, but it is easily traced amongst the rocky hills just west of 

 Bagh, as different beds of each of the groups in succession are brought 

 against beds of the other and cut off. To the north, near Borekooa, 

 some of the metamorphics are so slaty that it is difficult to distinguish 

 them from the clay slates of the Bijawurs, and in a stream which runs 

 into the Baghnee a little south-east of the village of Borekooa, and 

 which exposes a fine section of both groups, it is so difficult to ascertain 

 the exact boundary that the two series appear to pass into each other. 



The iron ore which forms the matrix of breccia close to the town of 



Bagh was formerly worked largely. The work- 

 Iron ore of Bagh. 



ings have now been abandoned for many yeai's, 



and the manufacture of iron is extinct in the country, owing, doubtless, 



to the destruction of the jungles. 



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