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principally of flat circular shapes. I have pored over this rock for hours 

 in the hopes of discovering some recognizable and reliable form : repeated 

 failure has left little doubt on my mind that the whole are of inorganic 

 origin. The strike of these rocks here is about south 30° east, with an 

 average prevailing north-easterly underlie. The most unequivocal section 

 I have seen, as exhibiting the position of this limestone, is in the gap 

 through which the road from Haut passes to the westward. Here the thin 

 band of limestone is well seen to rest upon, and to be overlaid by sharply 

 bedded grits and slates. Some of the overlying grits expose beautifully 

 rippled surfaces. On this section the rocks, as a whole, have a steady dip to 

 the east by north, the same being maintained in the section to the east ; 

 and on the road leading up to the Sairi hills, about Bil, the Blini limestone 

 and conglomerate are several times repeated by contortions, in a precisely 

 similar manner as on the spur north of Haripur. I may mention that this 

 is the most westerly locality in which I have noticed this important band 

 of rocks. 



On the ground of its lithological peculiarities alone one might, I think, 



Its connection with the decide that the Kukurhutti limestone does not 

 great limestone. belong tQ the Krd ^^ . ^ leagt it ig n(yfc digtin . 



guishable in the typical sections of that group a short distance off. The 

 strata with which it is associated are also of the type of lower rocks ; 

 its apparent position in the section being far down in the Infra-Blini 

 series. It seems too as if the general elevation of the outermost 

 belt of hills, to which elevation and its consequences the removal of the 

 Krol group at this point may be attributed, had brought up lower beds 

 here than elsewhere within this zone. Yet this Kukurhutti lime- 

 stone is continuously traceable along a chain of low hills into the great 

 limestone range north of Erki, where it seems to be associated with 

 the massive limestone ; the rocks, however, are all so very much disturbed 

 that it will be difficult to establish their true relative positions. It 

 may be worth mentioning that I detected the peculiar quasi-fossiliferous 



