158 W. BLANFORD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT II. 



it does the beds of any other formation in the neighbourhoodj while 

 the schistose slates are represented amongst the beds of Bagh and the 

 sandy calcareous rock in the Dhar forest. Still there is a possibility 

 that the Jobut beds may be distinct j and as one difficulty attending the 

 separation of the Bijawurs from the metamorphics is founded upon the 

 apparent passage of one into the other in this tractj it is as well to point 

 out that absolute proof of the identity of the Jobut rocks with the typi- 

 cal Bijawurs can scarcely be said to exist. The great resemblance of the 

 peculiar red rock of Bulwarree to that so typical of the Jobut beds has' 

 already been remarked upon. 



Proceeding now to the west from Kunas, the cretaceous beds are 



„ , , , , found to continue very thinly developed along the 



Cretaceous beds west j j i t? 



of Kunas. edge of the traps. They certainly do not exceed 



100 feet in thickness anywhere, and their average development is 

 probably not above 50 feet. As iisual, they are calcareous and conglo- 

 meritic near the top. Large cherty masses abound in the uppermost 

 calcareous beds on the road leading from Kunas to Eatara and Rajpoor, 

 near the village of Kilano. Blocks of chert 1 and 2 feet in diameter 

 which have weathered out abound at the surface. 



At Borree the end of the trap hills which mark the Malwa plateau 

 E d f Malwa trap ^^ reached, but the trap itself extends over the flat 

 plateau. ground to beyond Kunas. Here the boundary of 



the metamorphics turns to the northward, and only outliers of the traps 

 occur farther to the westward. This spot is, in fact, the extreme south- 

 west limit of the great trappean plateau of Malwa, which stretches, 

 without a single break, from this spot to the Vindhyan scarp south of 

 Bhopal. 



A great flat formed of the thin band of sandstone, upon which rest 



„ ^ , , „ equally thin outliers of trap, occupies the greater 



Country between Ku- n j i ^ i o 



nas and Bhabra. portion of the country between Kunas and Bhabra. 



The surface of the metamorphics beneath the cretaceous beds is evidently 

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