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as marked as the similarities when compared with obvious facts. He 

 relates that the carboniferous limestone along- the Khasor (or Ratta Ron) 

 range rests on a peculiar bed, a certain micaceous quartzite which he 

 never found in situ, but still identifies with a sub-carboniferous rock 

 stated to occur in Kashmir. As I have also entirely failed to find such a 

 rock in the series, though I have seen the junction of the carboniferous 

 and next lower beds, if he does not refer to erratic (i. e., travelled) frag- 

 ments perhaps derived from the sub-carboniferous boulder-beds, I am at 

 a loss to reconcile his reading with the facts of the case. 



Again, the variegated rocks of the Jurassic formation towards the 

 southern part of the Khasor range are erroneously referred by Dr. Verchere 

 to his supposed triassic Salt Range saline series. Further on he gives a 

 somewhat imaginative description of the rocks supposed by Fleming to 

 represent this saline series at the northern end of the same range, and by 

 himself to form an intrusion of ' f elspathie paste/ He appears to have 

 missed detecting the palpable stratification of these sandstones, &c. 



In describing the Shekh Budin hill, Dr. Verchere correctly refers the 

 mass of the strata to the Jurassic formation, whether " Oxf ordian '■ or 

 not still remains to be decided from a proper examination of the fossils. 

 Here again he sees in the variegated portion of the Jurassic group the 

 saline series of the Salt Range, 1 but omits to record the presence of the 

 highly fossiliferous triassic and carboniferous beds beneath, till a subse- 

 quent paper in January 1869, in which the latter are referred to. It is, 

 however, uncertain if this paper has been published. 2 



In a section which he gives of Shekh Budin, the anticlinal and com- 

 plementary synclinal curves of the locality are exaggerated into eight 

 folds separated by suppositious faults. 



1 The erroneous identification of the Salt Range saline series, here and ahove at both 

 ends of the Khasor range, is quoted on Dr. Verchere's authority in the Geological Survey 

 Manual at p . 487. 



2 This record would appear to have escaped notice in the Geological Survey Manual 

 (see p. 491). I have only had a MS. extract from it. 



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