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occur, dipping at a very low angle to the north-west, and just west of 

 them similar beds are seen dipping at 45° to the east, so that probably the 

 line of fracture seen at Limbat extends across to Heerapoor. As usual 

 in this country, scarcely any rock is seen except in the streams, and no 

 continuous sections even there. 



These beds of Heerapoor and Limbat contain, besides rolled agates, 

 pebbles of sandstone, which are mostly subangular, and of laterite. 



Brown, gray and yellow sands, scarcely sufficiently coherent in gen- 



c, . . ,1 TT ei^al to deserve the name of sandstone, continue 



Section below Heera- ' 



^°^'- down the stream. With them there are inter- 



stratified occasional harder bands, with conglomerates and gravels, the 

 latter frequently calcareous, and resembling the beds of Heerapoor. Near 

 Singpoor a few fossils were found, chiefly Pectens, Oysters, a species of 

 Conus, the club-shaped spines of a species of Cidaris, &c. No nummu- 

 lites are met with. Below Singpoor are numerous fragments of limestone 

 evidently derived from a thin bed. They abound in the valves of a 

 species of Cirripede (Balanus?). . 



Kocks are seen at intervals down the stream till within about 3 miles 

 of the place where it falls into the Nerbudda. Below Singpoor all are 

 similar to the beds seen near Heerapoor and Limbat. 



Between the Oomrawuttee and the Keem more rocks are exposed 

 Between the Oomra- than between the streams further north. The dips 

 wuttee and the Keem. ^re low, and the outcrop of the lower tertiary 



beds occupies a large space. A large portion of the basement beds here 

 consist of laterite and nummulitic limestone, which are both largely 

 exposed. 



. A band of laterite, apparently identical in part with that of Wagul- 



x , ., , , , khore, stretches across to Whaliat, and may thence 



^^^^^^*- be traced to the westward for 10 or 12 miles. At 



Whaliat it rises into small hills. In many places it has the usual 



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