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rido-e. In the gorge cut by the Dessaun west of this point there is nothing 



to seize upon as a junction. The flaggy beds of the Dulchipore group, 



although in the valley east of Dulchipore they partake of the partial 



disturbance of the lower Semri rocks, are here quite steady and are thus 



overlaid by a yellowish and greenish shale of which the affinities are 



rather with the Vindhyan than the Semri rocks. 



The difficulty caused by the juxta-position of two groups which have 



strong lithological resemblance is much felt in 

 Sagowni Section, . . . . 



this portion ot the field, since the introduction ot 



the Dulchipore sandstone. The section north of Sagowni shows this, 

 and also it gives the extreme example of how apparently reversed the 

 order of the upper and lower Semri groups may be—" Ascending the 

 scarp south of Punchee, one crosses the rounded buttress-like projec- 

 tions of the ferriferous Bijawur rocks, a thin line of decided scarp being 

 formed over these by the Semri Sandstone ; the surface slopes gently to 

 the south along the beds of this rock for a short distance when the height 

 is re-established by a more abrupt rise, running along by Piperiah and 

 Nyaghur. Near the latter place the drainage of this shallow excavation 

 is carried over a fall into the short lateral valley opposite Sagowni," (this 

 is the representative here of the deep valleys both to the W. and East, 

 which are excavated along the softer Semri beds) ; " the 60 feet vertical 

 section exposed in the fall is composed in the lower half of thin earthy 

 limestone and shales; these are immediately overlaid by a bed, 4 or 5 feet 

 thick of coarse conglomerate passing up into, and alternating with, a 

 whitish earthy coarsish sandstone ; all are so slightly inclined as to 

 appear horizontal on so short and oblique a section, the thin beds are 

 sligthly waved but there is no appearance of unconformity ; indeed 

 there is a kind of transition, some of the uppermost shales containing 

 scattered pebbles ; there is a very marked feature in this conglomerate, it 

 contains no pebbles of red jasper, being almost exclusively make up 

 of rounded pieces of pure quartzite" ; (this was the first time I had met 



