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ought to be classed with the new-red-sandstone, but remarked the absence 

 of both rock-salt and gypsum which characterize the English formation. 

 He believed that the Neerauch (Nimach) beds might perhaps hereafter 

 be found a continuation of Franklin's sandstone formation, an opinion the 

 correctness of which has been since verified. The limestones of the Nee- 

 much country are stated to overlie the sandstones, &c., and their age 

 is conjectured to be lias. Mr. Hardie describes the organic remains of 

 these beds as numerous,, and gives figures of three of them^ which, how- 

 ever, he was unable to refer with certainty to any particular genus. 



The anonymous author"^ of a paper on the geology of the Bhartpur 



District divides the rocks of this region into those 

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which immediately underlie the alluvial deposits 

 (the Vindhyan sandstones) and strata probably of an anterior date to 

 those which " here and there basset out^ forming, especially in the north- 

 ern portion, small detached hills and collines, which are generally topped 

 by a village. To the west, again, this district is flanked by a belt of 

 older rocks, which extends in a north-easterly direction from Biana, and 

 which is interposed between the newer sandstone and the decidedly pri- 

 mitive formations of the Jepur and Ajmdr territories." He considers the 

 sandstones^ now called Vindhyan, to be identical with the new-red-sand- 

 stone of England, and in an economic point of view divides them into 

 three varieties, of which the last, a salmon-colored kind passing into 

 greyish white, is the finest stone, as the red varieties are rather liable to 

 decomposition. The remainder of the paper refers to the area lying to 

 the north-west, the quartzite-sandstones of which belong to a pre- 

 Vindhyan epoch. 



In most of the foregoing, as well as in some of the following 



papers, it will be seen that the Vindhvans are 

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described as identical with the " new-red-sandstone 



of the English geologists. " The Rev. R. Everest ably discussed this 

 * Gleanings of Science, Vol. II, p. 143. 



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