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the North face." Further on is the isolated hill over Bugruhee, " at the 

 West point the limestone shows at the base, horizontal ; shortly to the 

 North, and at the same level, there is a narrow synclinal in sandstone 

 beds, and a little beyond this there is, in the bank of the Ohun near 

 Ajoura, the following section,— about 50 feet deep at top, of thin 

 undulating and broken sandstones, passing down into what were once 

 continuous layers of similar rocks, but now shivered, jasperized, and 

 recemented ; at bottom the confusion is complete, there is in it every 

 variety that has been mentioned of the siliceous element. 



If every case such as the above were to be considered a fault, their 

 number and complexity would be most confusing, and quite unsup- 

 ported by collateral evidence. 



The supposition which best meets appearances would be, that the 

 Tirhowan limestone had fomerly a somewhat greater extension than now, 

 and that thus the Vindhyans overlaid it ; that by some occult agency 

 large portions of it were then removed and the upper and lower rocks 

 were crushed into the hollows. But this hypothesis being scarcely admis- 

 sible, we may suppose that this limestone never extended much beyond its 

 present distance from the granite junction ; that even these limits were 

 modified by denudation, that among and upon these irregular masses the 

 Vindhyans were laid down ; that in the necessary process of compacting, 

 resulting from further accumulations, the very unequal resistance of such 

 a base produced the contortions we now find in these bottom beds. I 

 am inclined to think that the analogous state of disturbance all through 

 the lower Semri rocks is to be similarly accounted for.* 



I have already said that the troubled sandstones of the Ohun and 

 Pysunnee to a certain extent identified themselves with Semri rocks, 



* While offering this interpretation of the facts recorded in my field book, I would 

 state that I had not the opportunity of testing the supposition by a re-examination of the 

 phenomena, a correction that is generally granted, or even expected in geological memoirs i 

 —but I hope I have kept well within the limits of my data ; the ground was quite new, 

 and I shall at least have exhibited its prominent features, if not solved its difficulties. 





