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the course of the Sone silicious and altered beds appeared to the south 

 of the Akbarpur limestone, and in one place a limestone was found 

 which appeared to underlie the former, and hence to be one distinct from 

 the Akbarpur rock. All these beds had a general northerly dip, 

 although in places thrown into a series of trough-Kke undulations. In 

 the neighbourhood of Bijighur the sandstone (Kymore) attained a 

 thickness of 1,000 or 1,200 feet. Between this hiU fort and Mirzapur 

 nothing but sandstone was seen, and in returning from the latter place 

 to the Sone valley a section was observed very similar to that previously 

 described. To the east of Chunar limestone was again discerned at the 

 base of the northern escarpment^ and it seemed to Mr. Williams not 

 improbable that it might be found at Chunar at a workable depth. 

 Throughout the course of his investigations he saw nothing to justify 

 his concluding that any coal existed in the Kymore mountains. 



Dr. Carter, in his summary of the geology of 

 1853, Dr. Carter. 



India^^ is rather unfortunate respecting his iden- 

 tifications of the rocks in Bundelkund. He places them in his ' Oolitic 

 Series/ which he divides thus : — 



Tara Sandstone. 



r Shales. 

 KuTTRA SHALES < Limestone. 



tcoal. 

 PuNNA Sandstone. 

 In this series he includes, along with the Bundelkund beds, strata 

 described by Malcolmson in Southern India^f l>y Newbold near Kurnool, 

 by Herbert in the Sub -Himalayas, and by Grant in Cutch, as well as the 

 coal-bearing series of Bengal. From the fossils contained in the last and 

 in the strata of Cutch, the age of the whole is provisionally taken to be 

 oolitic. In his treatment of the subordinate groups he also comes to 

 * Jour. Bombay Asiatic. Society, Vol. V, p. 179. t ^o* improbably Vindhyau. 



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