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quartzites ; a couple of feet below it the rock is a slightly quartziferous 

 crystalline felspar, and at this surface the same a little decomposed, but 

 in it are thoroughly imbedded subangular blocks of hyaline quartz, 

 precisely as in the overlying bed". The foliation and structure of these 

 crystallines have no relation to the lie of the superimposed Bijawurs, 

 still it seems necessary to suppose that at the commencement of the 

 accumulation of the Bijawur quartzites, the surface of this granitic rock 

 was such as to receive and inclose these blocks : and it would almost 

 follow from this, that structure, texture and all are of an equally recent 

 date, a fact to which the general state of the Bijawurs lends no support, 

 for as I have said, with the exception of the quartzites at base, the rocks 

 have made no advance towards chemical metamorphism. 



In a gully on the hill side, just over the Gurhee at Shahgurh, the 

 Bijawur rocks, are seen for a few yards, but in the river just east of Dul- 

 chipore the Semri sandstone rests on a smooth, slightly inclined surface of 

 granite. 



The under junction of the western expansion of the Bijawurs shows 

 a more steady, connection with the crystalloid rocks, and in a manner to 

 implicate the whole group. In that section, near Sanodo, the last beds 

 mentioned are of what I may call upper-Bijawur type, and they there 

 showed themselves in immediate sequence with true bottom-beds, these, 

 however, only showing a doubtful connection with the crystallines. 



" Going from Barata to the iron pits, the path lies on crystalline rocks 

 for about 1^ miles, some being true granite, as far as texture and 

 composition are concerned ; there is then a low ridge of coarse con- 

 glomerate striking steadily for about 500 yards E. S. E. — W. N. W., im- 

 mediately below it is an amorphous rock weathering in rounded bosses ; 

 in composition this is the same as the matrix of the conglomerate, a base" 

 of light green flaky earth enveloping clear quartz, not in rounded grains, 

 but in the sharp indefinite form, which silex generally assumes in 

 granite ; veins of white, hyaline and of jaspideous quartz run through 



