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The level about Heerapoor is somewhat higher tlian about Dergoan 

 but the limestone shows the same features on both, except that on the 

 former it is found more flaggy and associated below with a few shale 

 beds. Heerapore itself is on a spur of crystalline rocks, which is almost 

 isolated among the Bijawurs, these being soon covered by the limestone 

 with shales ; on the road just north-east of the town, both are seen to be 

 much compressed and rolled. I have colored but two patches of this 

 peculiar deposit, and these are the only two on which it has remained 

 in sufficient quantity to be noticeable on a map ; moreover as I have said 

 it is seen that these formed in themselves circumscribed areas of depo- 

 sition. But there is evidence that elsewhere similar conditions had existed : 

 any where on the low ground to the west small remnants of this limestone 

 may be met with, particularly on the Bijawur rocks. For instance " in the 

 river east of Dullipore, close under the hills of the Bijawur rocks and at 

 the confluence of a small stream from the east, the limestone is seen ; a 

 few hundred yards south of this, there is a small section of schistose rocks, 

 they show strong squeezing up laterally and their relation to the lime- 

 stone is superposition ; the limestone seems to assimilate to them mineralo- 

 gically; about 50 yards up stream from this, more limestone shows but 

 of the clear pink variety and highly siliceous ; twenty yards further on, 

 there is the granite." " On the path half way between Indowra and 

 Tigohra, the actual contact of the limestone and granite is well seen. The 

 granite is fine grained : felspar white, both clear and opaque ; the limestone 

 is crystalline, very siliceous with grains of pink felspar, and of a green 

 earthy mineral through it, there are also pebbles of red granite in it — this 

 is remarkable for I could not find any such near the spot." About Sorai, 

 west of the Dessaun, the Dergoan limestone is in some force, and of a 

 puzzling kind ; it sometimes appears to have a steady dip, but it is so seen 

 on all sides of a small knoll of quartzite and slate; in such cases it appears 

 to me to be a kind of pseudomorphic stratification, it is apparently the 

 outcrop of beds of Bijawur rocks, lime having replaced the original mate- 



