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none of the careful observers who have also searched the rocks at Naini 

 Tal should have found similar remains makes such a contingency the 

 more likely. It is impossible in the case of such distinguished observers 

 as the brothers Schlagintweit to suppose them deceived by the pseudo- 

 fossiliferous appearance so common in the limestone at Naini Tal as 

 elsewhere ; the word ' clay-slate' is ambiguous in the above quota- 

 tion ; it may only mean the clay-slate series, and thus include the 

 limestone. 



I have spoken of the Sutlej as the north-western limit of the special 

 Subathu group south region of the Subathu group. This is not strictly 

 the case. The nummulitic beds are well seen on 

 both banks of the Sutlej at Dihur, and they extend for a short distance 

 in the hills to the north, but they disappear long before they reach 

 the Beas, in a manner to be presently described, and do not show again 

 to the east of the Ravee. ' However, during a short trip I made to 

 the Upper Punjab in 1859-60, I had the satisfaction of recognising the 

 Subathu group in the hills south of the Kashmir valley, and beyond 

 the Jhelum in Huzara.* The brown crumbling clay with earthy lenticu- 

 ar limestone abundantly charged with fossils, and surmounted by deep 

 purple clays with massive purplish sandstone, are as typical as in the 

 valleys south of Subathu. The whole are found too, having the same 

 kind of relation to underlying rocks which have a strong similarity to 

 the Krol group. At Dundelee, three miles north of Kotlee, on the east 

 of the Poonch valley in the Kashmir territory, one of the sections to 

 which I allude occurs. A rugged ridge of hard blue limestone protrudes 

 through hills of massive red sandstone and clays. The strike in both is 

 very steady to east 35° south. The limestone strata are vertical and 

 closely contorted ; on both flanks of the limestone ridge we find the 

 nummulitic clays cropping out from beneath the red rocks ; on both 

 sides, moreover, we find, beneath the nummulitic clays, thin carbona- 



* Some ye ars ago Dr. Fleming found nummulitic fossils in this district. 



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