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which conceals a large portion of the surface, even up to the trap 



boundary. 



Close to the right bank of the Hiran near the village of Shihadra, 



T, , „, ., , a mile south of Wasna. cono^lomerates of milk- 



Rocks near Smnadra, ■" ® 



south of Wasna. white quartz pebbles are seen in an almost purely 



quartzose matrix, coarse, gritty, and white. The beds dip at about 

 10° to south- 10°- west. Fine sandstones are interstratified with the con- 

 glomerate, and upon them rest deep purplish, nodular, ferruginous sand- 

 stone, somewhat shaly in parts, with dark grey shaly, soft, felspathic, and 

 nodular calcareous sandstones. All these beds are near to the base of 

 the cretaceous series, the metamorphics coming in just below them in 

 the Hiran, and they are unfossiliferous, as the basement beds of the 

 cretaceous rocks usually are. 



The next stream to the south, the Aswun, flows for a considerable 



distance through the cretaceous beds. They roll 

 On Aswun river. 



about at low angles, with, however, a general 



low south or south-east dip. 



To the west of Uggur, the principal beds seen are fine and very 



hard sandstones, precisely like those in the Deva 

 West of Uggur. 



near Doomkhul, south of the Nerbudda. Softer 

 beds are only exposed to the east. Close to Wajeria, some hills of 

 granitic rock, at the boundary of the cretaceous and metamorphic beds 

 are capped by massive conglomerates, hard and gritty, doubtless identi- 

 cal with those seen at Wasna. This band of conglomerate is very similar 

 to the Mahadeva conglomerates of the Nerbudda valley. 



East of Uggur, about a mile south-east of Nuswadee, hills of conglo- 

 merate are met with near the trap boundarv, which 

 East of Uggur. ^ Jj ^" 



belong to beds much higher in the cretaceous series 

 than those just described. The rock near Nuswadee resembles that seen 

 in the small inliers at Nowgama and elsewhere near the Men. The peb- 

 bles, instead of being all, or nearly all, of white quartz, as in the conglo- 

 merate at the base of the series, comprise slates and several forms of 



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