28 BUNDELCUND. 



Hitherto in speaking of the Kymores, I have only mentioned sandstones 



and chiefly of a fine texture, but, in the Western 

 Kymore conglomerate. 



portion, coarser rocks are very prominent. Already 



in the gorge of the Runj, above the disappearance of the Semri shales 

 (Captain Franklin's " coal shale"), very massive beds of pebbly conglo- 

 merates form as it were a bottom-rock for the Vindhyans, the same show 

 also in the next gorge to the west, further on they become more important 

 in character and extension. Over Peepultola, it appears as a massive 

 red conglomerate, and as such is not lost sight of, as a junction rock, 

 so far as this group was traced, to near Gwalior. It owes its qualification 

 " red" not to the matrix, but to the great abundance of pebbles of red 

 jaspideous shale — over Gungour near the Kane it may be seen in great 

 force. The contrast between this conglomerate and that belonging to the 

 Dulchipore group in the Semri formation is most marked and interesting. 

 In the lower rock the pebbles are exclusively of quartz or of Bijawur rocks 

 which are easily recognizable. In the Kymore conglomerate such are 

 remarkably scarce, even where it rests on granite. The red pebbles I 

 cannot closely identify with any rock, possibly some Bijawur rock 

 slightly pseudomorphosed. The next commonest is a black pebble, identi- 

 cal with the chert like shale of the lower Semri group ; in many places it 

 seems to contain Pulkoa schist fragments, as at Gopalpoora where it rests 

 on that rock. I never succeeded in finding a limestone pebble in it even 

 when it lies on the limestone, as at Sagowni, a mile or two above Go- 

 palpoora. I suspect suck pebbles become radically pseudomorphosed 

 when so isolated. 



The identifications here pointed out must necessarily modify the opi- 

 nion before stated regarding the original exten- 



Modifications. 



sion, and the denudation of the lower Semri groups 



■ — but only modify. The tendency I have shown in the two lower groups 



to stretch up along the boundary surface, may have carried them beyond 



their present limits, to which they were denuded before the deposition 



