Sec. 14.] detailed descuiptions. 189 



Further to the east^ the sandstone continues steadily, almost hori- 

 Moorabari zontal, to the head of the Mog-rabari stream, 



Babasiraj. north of Babasiraj hill, where it is suddenly over- 



lapped by the trap in the manner already referred to. At the head of 

 the valley all is sandstone, and for about a mile down it is the same, 



but close to where 200 or 300 feet of sedimentary 

 Sudden overlap of cre- 

 taceous rocks iu Mogra- rocks are seen in the sides of the ravine trap comes 

 bari valley. . 



m suddenly, occupying the whole valley and cover- 

 ing- up everything. The traps certainly have a sharp dip, about 10° 

 to the east, but that is far from sufficient to account for so rapid a dis- 

 appearance of the underlying beds. 



From the top of Babasiraj hiU, the finest peak in the country, about 



. ^ ,. 1 ^ 3 or 3 miles south-east of Atti, the general anticli- 



Anticlinal seen from ' » 



Babasiraj bUl. j^g^j seems to have an east and west axis, the traps 



of the hills, west of Doomkhul and Peeplode, being seen to dip north wai-d 

 and southward, from a line drawn about due west from Atti. To the 

 east, the dip is more steadily south and south-east, which accounts for 

 no cretaceous beds reappearing in Kanti and Akranee. 



Section 14. — The Rajpeepla hills, peom the eastern watershed 



OF THE DeVA, SaKHBARA, AND THE WESTERN BOUNDARY OP KhAN- 

 DEISH TO THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE NUMMULITICS. 



This tract requires but brief notice. It is entirely composed of trap, 



and its features do not, as a rule, require detailed 

 General cbaracters. , . . ^_ 



description. The most peculiar character, the 



great disturbance which the traps have undergone, and the prevalence 

 of dykes of large size, have already been mentioned in the chapter de- 

 voted especially to the traps. 



Commencing at the north-east, a broad range of hills, attaining a 



Range of bUls soutb ^^^ight of between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above the 



of Nandod. ggg^^ extends from the Deva to the stream which 



runs past Nandod. West of that stream the range continues, but it is 



of no great breadth, and gradually loses in height. In their eastern 



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