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India, Vol. vi, page 1. This paper contained the geological observations 

 made on a hurried visit from Kotri to Lainyan and Ranikot, to ascer- 

 tain the prospects .of additional discoveries of coal. The position of the 

 rocks at both places was ascertained, but nothing more was done to 

 investigate the series of rocks occurring in the province. 



Two notices, as already mentioned, have also appeared in the Records 

 of the Geological Survey — the first in Vol. ix, pages 8 — 22, the second in 

 Vol.. XI, pages 161 — 173 — embodying a brief summary of the results of 

 the present survey. 



Of descriptions relating to the geology of neighbouring districts, 

 Papers on neighbour- ^ ne mos ^ important are the following : — A paper 

 ing districts. ly j) r Cook ^ ent itled "Topographical and Geolo- 



gical Sketch of a portion of the province of Jhalawan and the eastern 

 division of Mekran/' published in the Transactions of the Medical and Phy- 

 sical Society of Bombay for 1860, Vol. vi, pages 1 — 45. This paper was 

 noticed, and several additional details of the fossils collected were fur- 

 nished by Dr. Carter, in the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the 

 Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. vi, page 184, under the title of " Geological 

 Discoveries in the valley of Kelat and surrounding parts in Beloo- 

 chistan." To the northward of Sind the only information available is 

 to be found in Dr. Cook's " Geological Report on a part of Beloo- 

 chistan" (Transactions, Med. Phys. Soc. Bombay, v, 1859, page 105), 

 relating, to the Bolan pass ; . Captain Vicary's " Geological Report on a 

 portion of the Beloochistan hills" (Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, ii, page 260), 

 describing the Marri and Bugti ranges north of Jacobabad ; and Mr. 

 Ball's " Geological notes made on a visit to the coal recently discovered 

 in the country of the Luni Pathans, south-east corner of Afghanistan" — 

 Rec. Geol. Surv. Ind., 1874, Vol. vii, page 145. The formations of 

 Cutch are described by Mr. Wynne in the Memoirs of the Geological 

 Survey of India, Vol. ix. The tertiary rocks of the Indian peninsula, 

 including Kattywar and Cutch, are briefly described in the Manual of 

 the Geology of India, Chapter xiv; the post tertiary formations in 

 Chapters xvi, xvii, and xviii ; Sind itself in Chapter xix ; and the Wes- 

 tern Punjab in Chapters xx and xxi. 



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