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This laterite bed can be traced to the souths though occasionally 

 concealed by cotton soil nearly as far as the Taptee river. About Turkesur 

 the rocks are better seen than usual, and their order of succession appears 

 to be the following : — (descending) : 



I. Agate conglomerates and gravels, yellow calcareous sand- 



stone, &c., occurring to the west of the town. 

 General succession of . 

 lower tertiary beds near No section seen ; only fragments on the surface, 



Turkesur. 



These are upper beds like those of Singpoor, 

 Heerapoorj &c. 



II. a. Nummulitic limestone, seen in place at and about the town 

 of Tm-kesur, and probably of considerable thickness. At the base, in one 

 place, close to Turkesur, is seen some pipe clay, as at Wagulkhore. 



h. Laterite, a massive bed, the same which is seen at Nowgama. 



c. Nummulitic limestone, probably of no great thickness, 30 to 40 

 feet perhaps, but no section seen. 



d. Agate gravel, containing masses of agate, rolled and unrolled, 

 chert, &c. 



e. Laterite, seen at Nerolee and Moonjhlao. 



III. Trap. 



It is impossible to do more than guess at the thickness of these 



beds, scarcely any reliable dips or sections being 

 No good section seen. t • i 



seen. Little sections of a few yards in ditches, and 



pieces of stone scattered about the surface of the ground, are the sole in- 

 dications of the existence of the different rocks, and these are only 

 local. The uppermost nummuhtic limestone is seen in massive blocks at 

 Turkesur, and can thence be traced to the north in place for some dis- 

 tance, and then by loose blocks on the surface of the ground, nearly 

 to Nowagam. South of Turkesur, it appears to be partly replaced 



T v^- V ix. by affate conorlomerate near B-oswar, but is 



Localities wnere the j o & ^ 



different beds are seen. again seen further south, near Nowagam, lying 

 nearly horizontally. It is probably thinner there than near Turkesm', and 



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