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the brook and amount in all to about 350 cubic yards. It is some- 

 what impure from sand and pebbles mixed with it, and would weigh per- 

 haps in all 550 tons. Of liquid tar in pools, there was in May 1870 about 

 100 gallons." He did not consider it likely the oil-bearing beds continued 

 bituminous to any great distance, but, owing to their thickness, thought 

 it highly probable that borings would meet with success as to the yield 

 of oil. 



Mr. Lyman's description of the section differs a good deal from that 

 recorded in my note book (perhaps he refers to some neighbouring local- 

 ity) , and he states that a brown sandy lime rock, evidently about the 

 horizon of the layers from 4 to 8 in the above list, contains " Productus 

 and other fossils.'" Of these I have found no trace, nor of any recogniza- 

 ble fossil until I had reached the shaly and flaggy beds with small Cera- 

 tites, beneath the soft greyish-white sandstone No. 3 above. 



It is difficult to fix the ages of the middle rocks in the last section. 

 Eocks below the ter- Such limestone as occurs here intercalated or 

 tiary conglomerate. entangled with the lowest part of the tertiary con- 



glomerate might be found in either the trias, cretaceous (?), or basal eocene 

 rocks ; it contains no fossils, and the presence of the petroleum rather 

 adds to the difficulty, the usual place of this being near the top of the 

 eocene limestones, which are altogether absent here. In no place is such 

 limestone or any limestone known to form layers in the Siwalik beds, so 

 the presumption is that the calcareous rock is here older, and that its 

 fretted shore surface was so filled by the material of the conglomerate, that 

 where sandy layers of the latter meet others of the limestone the distinc- 

 tion becomes effaced. The thick soft sandstone too (No. 3), being so far 

 as I could see unf ossiferous, is not easy to refer to any fixed horizon; 

 it is not seen to occupy its place for any considerable distance, and though 

 bearing a certain amount of resemblance to the sandstone on the supra- 

 jurassic horizon, it may just as possibly belong to either of the next 

 underlying groups. Below it the rocks are a part of the Ceratite group, 

 and as the black Belemnite zone does not occur beneath the sandstone, it 



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