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merits of crocodile skulls and tortoise plates. A few large oyster shells 

 were also found ; they were much rolled, and had perhaps been derived 

 from lower beds. The ossiferous bands aud the lower Manchhars gene- 

 rally are best seen to the south of the river, but no continuous section 

 is exposed. The bone locality mentioned by Vicary 1 is on the left 

 bank or north of the river ; but remains were nowhere found by the 

 survey, despite much search, in such abundance as from his description 

 would be inferred to exist. 



The transition beds between the Manchhar and Gaj groups are best 



Beds between Man- seen in a sma11 cliff ™ the left (north) bank of 

 chhar and Gaj groups. the river at some wheat g^ &})mt g mileg 



from the edge of the hills. It should be noticed that the river has cut 

 through the hill ranges a broad level water-course, in places upwards of 

 a mile wide, filled usually with coarse gravel, but in some places covered 

 with soil, and not unfrequently overgrown with trees and bushes. The 

 estuarine strata at the top of the Gaj beds are, as usual, variegated 

 clays, red, brown, olive, &c, in colour/ with sandy shales and calcareous 

 sandstone. A few bones were found in these beds. Turriiella angulata, 

 Corbula trigonalis, "and Area larMianaensis occur as usual, and with them 

 Mr. Fedden procured Vicary a verneuili, a Nticula near N. studeri, and 

 other fossils. In beds rather lower down, a slate-coloured shale yielded 

 some small crabs, including amongst others the genus Typilobus, des- 

 cribed by Dr. Stoliczka 2 from the tertiaries of Sind and Cutch. The 

 horizon of this fossil was previously unknown, and was incorrectly 

 supposed to be eocene. 



Above this the course 'of the river runs through Gaj beds for 4 or 5 



Section of Gaj group miles ; tne <% wnich was at ^t 25°, becoming 

 on Gaj river. much lower, and in the lower beds of the Gaj 



group being not more than 8.° The very fine cliff section of the group 

 is on the south (right bank) of the river, about 5 miles from the plain to 

 the eastward. The uppermost beds are not here exposed, but not more 



1 Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, 1847, iii, p. 347. 



2 Pal. Ind., Ser. VII, p. 14, pi. Ill, figs. 3—5. 



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