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them in somewhat the same manner as the contortion-breccia, as if its 

 accumulation were the direct and immediate consequence of the dis- 

 turbance of the Bijawurs. This may be seen on the sides of Pundoah 

 hill, over Mujgoa and at many places along the junction; the hill side 

 weathers into great dark, bare, rounded surfaces. It in some degree 

 describes the pesition of this rock to say that, as regards the Bijawurs 

 it is superficial. 



It is seen best preserved at Dullipore. The mass of hill projecting 

 beyond the boundary where it runs N. and S., is made of it : at Dullipore 

 there are two high ribs of quartz striking E. and W. into the hill ; they 

 stand out on the plain at about the same height, but the granite surface 

 between them on which the hill rocks were deposited, had not been worn 

 so low as the present plain, the junction being about 100 feet from 

 base: the beds appear as if they were laid down in this trough; the 

 greater-part of the height from top, is of the thick amorphous red pebbly 

 clay, but below are imperfectly bedded non-ferruginous clays and grits. 



The iron ore is not confined to any particular position in this clay. 



The Mujgoa mines are immediately under the 

 Position of the ore. 



Semri sandstone, low down in the Nukta pass — 



the Dewra mines are high up on scarp and not far from the same sand- 

 stone — the Motee mines are not 30 feet over the valley and just under 

 a steep hill of Bijawur strata dipping at a high angle, on the top of which 

 hill the same clay rock rests on the edges of the said strata. In the Dulli- 

 pore promontory, the only place where this iron clay seems to have over- 

 reached the true Bijawur limits, there is a large pit opened just on edge 

 of scarp. Near Heerapore again, where the ore is particularly abund- 

 ant, its rock is quite involved in the disturbance of the surrounding 

 Bijawur rocks. 



In all these various positions the ore and its lie. are unchanged : it 



is a massive specular iron or red hoematite collected 

 Its nature. 



in lumps of various sizes, some containing several 



