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smashed up in vertical beds ; at the North end there is a mass of lime- 

 stone beds in the river with a slight dip to S. S. E., and soon becoming 

 horizontal. Immediately below, the limestone shows more extensively, 

 but is much shattered, the cracks being filled up by a sandy calc-tufa. 

 This feature increases, the detached pieces of limestone becoming curi- 

 ously converted into yellow crystalline geodes, the whole passes into a 

 completely amorphous coarse breccia in which sandstone fragments often 

 predominate; sandstone beds appear at intervals in rolls and sharp 

 bends ; the breccia being distinctly seen to fill up vacancies under antic- 

 linal arches and in synclinal troughs, the blocks in it being of all sizes. 

 Shortly below 1 this and about |- mile above the sacred ghats, the lime- 

 stone is seen roughly horizontal, but occasionally with sharp bends, 

 at these the bed is often charged with curious concentric concretions of 

 chert. The next rock seen in river is granite, a long way down." The 

 limestone mentioned here must be quite distinct from the Tirhowan 

 group, it is intercalated in sandstones and shares their contortions. 

 The analogous section to the latter part of this in the Pysunnee, may be 

 seen in the Ohun near Churoda, at the back of Bhowree Hill. 



It may be remarked that the presence of a puzzle here depends 

 largely upon the opinion that a group such as the Tirhowan lime- 

 stone, so homogenous, so perfectly stratified and in one direction 

 showing such steadiness in all these characters, and in thickness for so 

 great a length, fully 150 miles — could not have been originally limited 

 laterally to perhaps 8 or 10 miles. 1 held this idea myself and sought 

 for an explanation how I might retain it. Suppose then that it once 



had this great extension— it certainly does not take 

 Not dip. •> 



a sudden plunge and so get out of sight. A denu- 

 Not denudation : 



dation which should gradually have swept away 



all but this long remnant, prior to the Vyndhyan epoch, seemed to 



me so improbable a phenomenon that I rejected it. The only other 



available explanation is by faulting. To exhaust the possible results 



