36 BUNDELCUND. 



Neither as stones, nor as strata, can they pretend to belong to a different 

 grand epoch from their successors ; I mean they do not exhibit any me- 

 chanical or chemical contrast which would necessarily involve their very 

 distinct separation from the Semri and Vindhyan. Their disturbance, 

 though far greater than any thing seen among the lower Semri, has still a 

 local character. The most isolating feature they have is the abundant 

 presence of trap rocks. In their relation to the granite, these three for- 

 mations show a kind of gradation. The Vindhyan sandstone and the 

 granite* are not particularly affected near the junction ; in actual con- 

 tact, well seen at Kalleenjur, both are pure and typical. With the lower 

 Semri group it is different; blocks of granite, and a felspathic binding 

 material are not unfrequent, and that very peculiar silicifying influence 

 which lasts as long as granite is the subjacent rock, seems not to obtain 

 at a distance from the junction surface. In the Bijawurs, the junction is 

 for the most part of the same kind, i. e. the surface of junction is also the 

 surface of deposition, but there is in places an appearance of even an 

 alternating association with the crystalline schists. 



The nature of the junction changes several times but always so as to 



preserve a connecting link. I will exhibit these 

 Lower junction rocks, , . 



first, excepting that portion of the boundary where 



it runs nearly N. and S. which is probably due to a fault. About the Kane 

 there appears to be a change in direction as well as in material ; the mas- 

 sive quartzite sandstones, which have formed the outer and lower scarp 

 of Pundoah hill, reach the Kane much reduced ; they now alter their 

 strike about 10° to North, and die out in about 200 yards, but they are 

 seen to alternate with the rocks which replace them. The most prominent 

 of these is a granitic sandstone, a peculiar rock ; it is much worked for 

 rough millstones, it is in places seen to contain distinct pebbles of quartz 



* I use the word granite here and often elsewhere, principally to avoid circumlocutions, 

 and repetitions ; there will be no difficulty in detecting when it means only granitic or 

 crystalline rocks. 



