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east of Gooleheroo, and of bands of slates gradually thinning out 
under the quartzites to the south-east, which are traceable into strata 
further north clearly overlying these limestones. 
At best, however, without any paleontological evidence, and whilst 
Present classificationof the continuity of the rocks is so frequently 
Saneeumenuly tentative. obscured, the classification adopted by us must, to 
a great extent, be considered as tentative. 
It is possible, too, that the rocks, whether Naggerys, or Gool- 
cheroos, are not the oldest of the series. The lowest rocks of 
Eeshwarnacoopum are not exposed ; and there are outliers along the 
eastern boundary of the field which are bottom rocks for that region, and 
yet are untraceable into, or unrecognizable with, other bottom beds with- 
in the field. The strata—quartzites with bands of slate—of the main 
mass of Eeshwarnacoopum belong, if the succession of groups be cor- 
rect throughout the field, to the lowest of the series, or the Paupugnee 
beds ; while the thin belt of quartzites of Soonkasla Peak,* and the band 
of Urdaveed, or Bolapilly, slates above them, would be Chey-air beds. 
CHAPTER 2.—THe PAUPUGNEE BEDS. 
Goolcheroo Quartzites. 
This group is best displayed along so much of the valley of 
the Paupugnee river as traverses the area of the 
Lowest group of KA- NE 
DAPAHS best seen on the KADAPAH rocks; though this is only a very small 
Paupugnee. 
portion of the outerop, extending, as 16 does, in a 
belt of generally some ten miles in width right up to and beyond Kurnool. 
The series is made up of a set of quartzites which form the 
A set of quartzites fringing scarp and eastern slopes of the western 
overlaid by slates with ; 
limestones. hills from about Gooleheroot to Lorepoort on the 
* North-east corner of Eeshwarnacoopum range. 
T Fifteen miles south-south-west of Cuddapah. 
t Suburb of Kurnool. ۱ 
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