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Costello and others. Still there can scarcely be any doubt that a 

 regularly organised search for fossils, with sufficient time at disposal 

 would be successful. The few specimens I was able to obtain durino- 

 the short time I was in the neighbourhood were scarcely worth carriage. 



Section VI. — The Bhattani Hills. 



This is a much lower range than the Nila Boh, formed of exactly the 

 same beds, likewise having an anticlinal arrange- 

 ment, but the inclination on each side is at low 

 angles and the curve more open and uniform. The axis starts obliquely 

 from that of Shekh Budfn Giind, and the curves of both anticlinals 

 almost insensibly pass into one another among the hills near of Pezu 

 post. The convex curves, in plan, or " semi-theatres," of Dr. Verchere 

 are doubtless due to horizontal undulations of the main axis of curvature. 



The state of the country was too disturbed when I visited it for any 

 examination to be permitted towards the Baindarra, &c. ; indeed the town 

 of Tank in the vicinity was just then raided and burned by the hill-men, 

 and the Pezu post itself was threatened with a night attack. 



The structure of the range was, however, clearly seen from Shekh 



Budin, and the section through the Pezu pass 

 Upper Siwalik. 



showed the rocks to be the same upper Siwalik beds 



as those of the Nila Boh. 



SUMMARY. 



From the foregoing descriptions it will appear that the Salt Range, 

 both orographically and geologically, is continued through the trans-Indus 

 of the Bannu and Derajat districts to the Sulemani system of mountains 

 at the termination of the Bhattani ridge. It will be observed that the 

 general sections in both the cis-Indus and trans-Indus portions of the 

 range include, with many variations, palaeozoic, mesozoic, and cainozoie 



formations. 



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