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to be in a carbonized state," between the slaty fracture of sandstone 

 slate ; and in other places limestone was found. 



Dr. Yojsej,^ in a paper ' On the building stones and Mosaic of Agra,* 



describes the sandstone of which that city is erect- 

 1825, Dr. Voysey. 



ed. He states, without, however^ giving any rea- 

 son, that it belongs to the old-red-sandstone formation of Werner, and 

 believes that it will be found incumbent on granite, as he had invariably 

 found it in the Peninsula of India and other parts of Hindostan. He 

 conjectures that the Agra sandstone forms part of the great spread of rock, 

 on the north-east boundary of which are found Futtipur-Sikri, Mach- 

 kund, Dholpur, Gwalior, Kallinjer, Chunar, and Rotasgurh, a conjecture 

 the correctness of which has been since clearly proved, although the sand- 

 stones of Gondwana to the south-west, which he also includes, have been 

 found to be imconnected with the Vindhyan series. 



, The results of Captain Franklin^s examination of a portion of 



Bundelkund and adjoining districts are embodied 

 1828, Captain Franklin. ^ 



m his paper presented to the Asiatic Society of 



Bengal.t Starting from Mirzapur, he proceeded by the Tara and Kuttra 

 ghats to the Rewah plateau, describing the sections of sandstone ob- 

 served at these passes and at the various waterfalls between them and the 

 Tonse. He arrived at the conclusion that these rocks are to be identified 

 with the new- red-sandstone formation, and considered it probable that the 

 " red and bluis/i green slaty marie interstratified with sandstone" met with 

 near the top of the Kuttra Pass represented the red marie of England. 

 From Hatti (Hathi) to Patteriya Captain Franklin passed chiefly over lime- 

 stone, which he concluded was ' lias,* and found " red marie** underlying 

 it in some locahties, as at Sohawel and Hutta. At Nagode (Nagound) this 

 limestone is stated to contain " fragments of fossil wood, also fragments 

 of stems of ferns, and one piece exhibited what I took for an impression 



* Asiatic Researches, Vol. XV, p. 429. 



t Asiatic Researches, Vol. XVIII, p. 23, and Geol. Trans., 2nd Series Vol. Ill, p. 191. 



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