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cubic yards of the pure unmixed mineral. These masses are not scattered 

 indiscriminately throughout the rock, nor yet do they show any inclination 

 to bedding; the accumulations are local, and generally have a sloping position 

 in the mass. It is not a segregation, at least the clay in the neighbourhood 

 is not impoverished, although it is somewhat modified, its iron not being 

 disseminated but disposed in streaks and specks through the unctuous 

 white clay : it appears as if in the immediate influence of numerous im- 

 pregnating sources, these condensed accumulations took place. 



Two miles south of Sorai beyond the Dessaun, the " iron mines are 

 opened along an E. S. E. strike, the containing rock being the same whitish 

 red clay, the depth is about 20 feet ; the ore a massive sub-crystalline 

 red haematite, in every way like that at Dewra or Heerapore." 



The most abnormal position in which the ore is found is in the Barata 



mines : the few beds I have already noticed there, 

 Exceptional case. ' . 



conglomerate and strong green grits, are overlaid 



by the massive, red, earthy, pebbly rock, and all strike into the north 

 end of the hill in which the iron ore is got, the nearest pits are some 

 200 yards in advance of where these Bijawur rocks go into the hill side, 

 and nothino- is seen below the pits, which are just at top of the underclifF, 

 so that the actual relation of the seam to the underlying strata is left some- 

 what to conjecture. The occurrence of the ore is as follows; the Semri sand- 

 stone caps the hill, about 12 feet under it is the iron deposit, here undoub- 

 tedly bedded ; the ore is the true Bijawur ore, occurring in small sizedlumps 

 through a clayey, iron, gangue, which is often rich enough to be used even 

 in the native furnace ; it is a three feet bed and 2 or 3 feet over it is of 

 similar iron clay, but harder and more impure ; over this, with scarcely any 

 attempt at gradation, come green shaly sandstone and fine green shales, 

 quite of a Semri type, and which, alternating with some thin flagstones, are 

 immediately overlaid by the thick bedded Semri sandstone : all the beds 

 mentioned are remarkably regular and strictly conformable to the sand- 

 stone. This fact is seen in any of the pits, which are horizontal burrows in 



