160 W. BLANFORDj WESTERN INDIA. [PaUT II. 



Otter similar bands, also in the foliation strike of the gneiss, are 

 met with near Deokee Hattee, north of Chota Oodipoor, on the banks 

 of the Orsing river. 



The Mundar ranges break up about Kutteewara^ but others keeping 

 the same general strike replace them, the whole series of hills forming 

 the watershed between the feeders of the Nerbudda (or of its tribu- 

 tary the Orsing) and those of the Mhye, The highest part of all is a 

 table land called Kuttunmul, the flat top of which gives it the appearance 

 from a distance of being formed of trap. Its summit, however, consists of 



an outlier, about 4 or 5 miles in extreme length, of 

 Kuttunmul. 



cretaceous sandstone, caps of- the same remaining 



upon two at least of the adjoining hills. The beds are only about 100 

 feet in thickness, but they vary somewhat, and portions may slightly 

 exceed that amount, as, although their surface is remarkably level, they 

 rest upon an uneven base of granitoid gneiss. No trap whatever was met 

 with on the top of the terrace ; it is strange, if it ever existed there, 

 that it should have entirely disappeared, but it is difficult to say if it ever 

 existed. This occurrence of the cretaceous rocks, at so much greater an 

 elevation than in the neighbouring country, must be due to disturbance. 

 It shews that the southerly dip is not confined to the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of the Nerbudda. 



Near Oodipoor the strike of the granitoid gneiss appears to be 



_ . ^, , irregular. So far as it can be made out in the 



Gneiss near Chota ^ 



Oodipoor. Orsing a httle above the town, it appears to dip to 



the north-west, and the same takes place in the hills to the east, but it is 

 not clear that this is not original bedding, as a partial cleavage was dis- 

 tinctly seen in the stream section in one instance with the normal 

 north-west south-east strike, and a little further north, the limestone 

 bands near Deokee Hattee run in that direction. 

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