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Towards the east, whenever the conglomerate occurs, it is found 

 1. Conglomeritic sand- resting- with total unconformity on the vertical or 

 nearly vertical beds of the slate series. Fine 

 examples of this present themselves south-east of Khone Khas, where the 

 conglomeritic sandstone perhaps attains its greatest development, and in 

 the neighbourhood of Agoree Khas. For instance, on the slope of the hill 

 west-30°-north of Keonda the vertical reddish slates strike west-10°-south. 

 Resting immediately on these is 15 or 30 feet of coarse thick-bedded 

 conglomerate, the slightly rolled pebbles (up to 6 and 8 inches diameter) 

 being chiefly from the red jasper of the older rocks. Over this 3 or 4 feet 

 of thin-bedded yellow and reddish sandstone is exposed, the lowest part 

 containing small pebbles : dip east-10°-south, at 40°. Koodyla hill, of 

 slates in a similar position, is capped in places by remnants of conglomeritic 

 sandstone, a very thick-bedded and massive rock, in appearance some- 

 times not unlike the Kymore, but full of rolled pebbles of white quartz, 

 red jasper and a few of green slate. The hill west of Bijowra is capped 

 by about 150 feet of very coarse sandstone, with pebbles and grains of 

 white quartz and a few of red jasper. It is coarser in the lower part 

 than above, but none of it can be called conglomerate. Dip eastwardly at 

 10° : that of the slates 70° to south-15°-east. On the bank of the Sone at 

 Agoree fort the red jasper of the lower series dips south at 60,° on which 

 rest a few feet of conglomerates formed of pieces of the former with 

 calcareous and arenaceous cement. Above this is 15 or 20 feet of thick- 

 bedded, impure, light grey limestone, covered by 8 or 1 feet of very 

 massive sandstone. 



The above examples show the great eapriciousness of the bottom 

 conglomerate in both lithology and thickness. Near the Kunhur river 

 it is not seen at all, although, from the nature of the ground, this cannot 

 be taken as clear proof of its absence. In the neighbom-hood of Khone 

 Khas it is only the bottom part of this sub-division which is conglomeritic 



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