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last because its position as a genuine Bijawur rock seems doubtful, but 

 the determination of the position is important, as 

 involving the correct estimation of the iron deposit. 

 It seems rather to have originated in the destruction of the Bijawurs, 

 than to form part of their series, but still it is no where found away from 

 them, and is the most constant rock to be found along the upper junction. 

 Its prominent ingredient is a ferruginous clay, this is sometimes so brecci- 

 ated and silicified as easily to be taken for the contortion-breccias, indeed 

 I suspect they may pass into each other ; however the rock in question 

 is also frequently conglomeratic and unmistakeably a sedimentary rock. 

 On many sections it would necessarily be set down as the conformable 

 top rock of the Bijawur series — as in the Kane, ", the Semri sandstone 

 gradually overlies a thick mass of conglomerate breccia, a purple sandy 

 ashy base, with pebbles of quartzite, and of varieties of sandstone ; the 

 conglomeratic character diminishes, and at bottom there is little but 

 red clay." The section I have given under Sanodo ends in a massive 

 conformable bed of the same pebbly clay, and is overlaid by the Semri 

 sandstone: in both these positions the contained pebbles are clearly 

 recognizable to be from the true Bijawur rocks. In the two sections 

 I have given (at p. 43) of the upper junction, this clay was absent 

 between the Semri and the upper Bijawur rocks. Where the section 

 is long enough, the apparent conformability with the beds below soon 

 ceases; as along the west side of Pandoah hill, the clay is under the 

 Semri sandstone as far as it reaches, but the contortions of the lower rocks 

 often carry them in the opposite direction, or bring their broken edges 

 up through the iron rock. So far then this rock seems to belong rather 

 to the Semri than to the Bijawur group ; at least, the relation which it 

 bears to the latter formation is scarcely legitimate, it is not one that 

 scarcely gives it any right to be called Bijawur. In many places the 

 iron clay does not merely rest on the edges of Bijawur strata, it seems 

 to fill up great gaps between their mases, in fact to be connected with 



