(36 KING : NELL0KE PORTION OF THE CAIINAT1C. 



i mile, where I observed a coarsish ferruginous sandstone, with some fine 

 yellowish bands, very little of them being seen, chiefly from small bowries. 

 In some of these finer bands I found traces of plants which I considered 

 sufficient to identify the beds as being the same as the plant bearing 

 sandstones seen elsewhere. 



" The weathered surface of a quartzo-felspathie gneiss in a small hill 

 south of Gutergully presents such a remarkable similarity to these beds 

 close by, that it seems hardly possible to avoid the remark that the mate- 

 rials of which they are formed might have been readily derived from the 

 rock in the immediate neighbourhood. 



" Lying on the sides of this small hill in large masses is an extremely 

 coarse conglomerate, the matrix of which is not unlike some of the more 

 ferruginous bands of the sandstones. I could not trace its connection 

 with these sandstones. The pebbles which it contains, many of which 

 are of considerable size (6 inches and more in diameter) , are all, as far as I 

 saw, of quartz-rock, or intensely quartzose gneiss, rounded and water- 

 worn. Possibly it may have been a beach deposit of the plant-bed age, 

 but though I could obtain no distinct proof, I should incline to consider 

 it more recent. 



" The only other locality remaining to be noticed is close to Ped- 

 dawaram (just outside the boundary of sheet 11), north-west of Chel- 

 lum of the map. South-east of the village a coarse ferruginous (lateritic) 

 grit, in parts pebbly and almost conglomeratic, capped by laterite, form 

 a well-marked bluff of 25 to 30 feet, trending northwards and turning 

 round east of Nursapuram, in which direction and south towards Chintal- 

 palem, it diminishes in height and ceases to be a well-mai-ked scarp and 

 dies out in a laterite pebbly deposit thinly spread over the metamorphic 

 rocks. Close to Peddawaram (sheet 76), in the low ground south of the 

 village, yellow micaceous sandstones, which I suppose to be of the 

 plant-bearing series, are seen in a bowry, but no specimens of plant 

 remains were procurable. I was unable to trace them into connection 

 with the lateritic grit, which, however, from its position, must be at a 

 higher level, and have probably overlaid the sandstones, and been here 

 denuded, leaving the existing scarp, round the base of which all rock is 

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