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Maldipooi-j \Yill furnish some idea of the tertiaiy rocks of this 

 neighbourhood. The following beds are seen in descending order. 



1. Calcareous clays. 



2. Agate gravels and conglomerates witli fossil wood. 



3. Calcareous and argillaceous white sandstones. 



4. Agate gravels and conglomerates, with occasional trajj pehbles. 



5. Ditto, with layers of sand and of red ferruginous clay. 



6. Calcareous clays and pale yellow sandstones containing plant remains. 



7. Alternations of gravel or conglomerate, sandstone, and red lateritoid clay, with 



occasionally bands of clay of various colours, and shales. 



Each of these extends for a considerable distance and represents 

 some hundreds of feet. It is very difficult to say if all these beds are 

 regularly superposed one upon the other ; if they are^ the whole thickness 

 must be very great. But possibly these are either faults or concealed 

 roUs of the strata. 



Euttunpoor hill is to the north of the stream. It consists mainly 



of conglomerate^ which dips north-west on the 

 Euttunpoor hill. 



north side ol the hill, and m the opposite direction 



on the southj near Ruttunpoor, so that the extremity of the hill is a small 



anticlinal. The hill strikes nearly north-east — south-west ; and further to 



the north-east, the dip appears to be chiefly to the north-west north 



of the hill, and to the west on the south. There is thus here 



as to the west, very considerable disturbance of a later date than 



eocene. 



South of the hill, between it and the village of Dumlahee, are the 



well known Euttunpoor agate or cornelian mines. 

 Agate mines. mi .; 



ihe agates occur in certain of the gravel beds 



and have undoubtedly been originally derived from the trap, as was 



remarked by Dr. Carter. The only stones considered of value occur in 



a small ferruginous stratum, from the iron of which their colour is 



doubtless derived. 



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