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of sandstone, precisely similar to the ordinary Nari beds, but above 

 the sandstone again comes limestone with Alveolina and a small num- 

 mulite, so the sandstone must here be classed as Khirthar. The two 

 groups certainly appear to pass into each other, and neither here, nor to 

 the westward near the Habb, is the massive Khirthar limestone found. 

 The characteristic brown limestone, with Nnmmulites garansensis and 

 N. sublavigata, is also wanting at the base of the Nari beds. 



In the thin-bedded limestones fossils abound, and many of the 

 typical Khirthar species occur. Amongst the latter are Nummidites 

 spira, a variety (apparently) of N. ramondi, N. lyelli? OrUtoides dispansa, 

 a gigantic Operculina, Ec/iinolampas sindensis, and another species, 

 Eurhodia calderi, Hemiaster sp., &c. 



The rocks continue northward into the high Bedur range, in which 



the Khirthar limestones doubtless become more 



massive. The fault extends for some distance 



to the north-west. The range here is, however, beyond the British 



frontier, and has consequently not been examined. 



Baili is on the eastern edge of a broad plain, drained by several 



. streams tributary to the Habb river. The Habb 

 Plain west of Baili. . ' -, » 



itself runs farther west, on the other side of a 



rather lofty range, known as Hamlig, which terminates to the southward 



near Kand. 1 South-west of Baili, between the Piro range and the Mol 



plateau, the plain exhibits a fair section of Nari beds ; the harder limestone 



and calcareous sandstone bands, at their outcrop, rising into ridges parallel 



with the Piro range. All these beds have a steady south-west dip 



towards the Mol plateau, which is about 800 feet above the plain, and 



surrounded by a scarp. The upper portion of this scarp, like the top of 



the plateau, consists of Gaj beds. The dip of the Nari beds varies from 



15° to 35°, and taking the breadth of the plain, where narrowest, at 3 



1 The Hamlig range is outside the coloured portion of the accompanying map. The 

 position of Baili has already been indicated ; it is north-east of the northern end of the 

 Mol plateau (Gaj) and 3-J miles north of Got Din Muhammad. Kand is a police post 4 miles 

 north of the Myher trigonometrical station, and is named from the stream running past 

 it to join the Habb. 



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