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but this ingredient is commonly arranged as in ordinary granite, as it 

 were a bond ; pale yellow earthy felspar occupying the small irregular 

 cavities : high up on Rajgurh hill, I got a crystalloid rock very like it. 

 Under both quartzites and millstones there is a large development of 

 pseudo-igneous rocks. On the hill S. W. of Bussour there are about 150 

 feet of them, between the quartzites and the crystallines ; the Kane cuts 

 the strike obliquely, and thus they are seen to advantage, the upper 

 portion of them is purely earthy, and resembles varieties of well crystal- 

 lized, highly felspathic diorite in a state of decomposition, further down 

 they become quartziferous, rather after' the manner of granitic than of 

 quartziferous trappean rocks ; in this state their stratified origin is fully 

 attested ; at Bussour ghat two or three beds of pebbly sandstone are 

 seen in them, with a moderate dip of 10° to S. S. E., on both sides of the 

 river, with perfectly steady strike for about 200 yards ; and showing no 

 alteration ; this is not even an isolated case, about 200 yards down river 

 there is a single bed of sandstone similarly placed. The junction with 

 the great mass of crystalline rocks is not very marked. One must be 

 puzzled whether to consider these rocks as metamorphic or as true 

 contemporaneous trap ; to support the latter view, there is, further to 

 west, a genuine trap which lithologically answers to this type as 

 well as being interstratified. The crystalline rocks are, as a rule, 

 deficient in the earthy (hornblendic) element ; however, I should be 

 inclined to consider these junction beds as crystalline debris remineralized. 

 I did not get any Bijawur rocks beyond the S. W. flank of Lullar 

 hill. West of the Kane they rapidly assume a decided character, 

 the strong quartzites form an outer scarp rivalling that of the Semri 

 sandstone — and they continue so to beyond Bijawur — at Pundoah these 

 masses are from one to two hundred feet thick, and slope at an 

 angle of 30° — 40° : decidedly in front of them is the compact, amyg- 

 daloidal trap to which I have alluded — they here rest immediately on 

 crystalline rocks. 



