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. sandstone and granite continues on steadily to the north, by Myapoor, 

 Amola and Nurwur, the sandstone sometimes being but a mere capping ; 

 debris of the red jasper conglomerate is abundant almost every 

 where about the junction ; the sandstone is generally more compact, 

 finer and redder, more like the Bundair than the Kymore sand- 

 stone : at Amola these characters are very marked. At Nurwur 

 the section is very easily seen ; the scarp cannot be less than 800 

 feet, the granite occupying 700 ; under the monument at the point of 

 the hill south-east of the fort, the decomposing red granite is over- 

 laid by five feet of shaly red conglomerate, typical in every way, it is 

 covered by fine red and gray sandstones :" at Kareya it is equally well 

 seen, the granite still reaching very high. 



Here I parted with the Vindhyan formation, at least with what I can 

 assert to be so, having traced the rocks uninterruptedly. From this 

 point I crossed the angle to the east-west range of hills, north of Bunwar; 

 it has precisely the outline of the Vindhyan scarp and I fully expected to 

 meet the same here again, but I found the section completely changed; 

 nor had I time to go back to take up the junction, being content to 

 have carried it so far north and into immediate connection with a new 

 and promising field of investigation. 



I may notice one more feature of the Vindhyans: they have to the last 



T , ,, , r . kept up their habit of weathering into ledges: 



Ledges in the Vin- r r rj o 



dhyan rocks. there is no point along this line of scarp, from 



which flat-topped hills of greater or less extent may not be seen on the 

 plateau, and having precisely the appearance of outliers of the Rewah or 

 Bundair table-lands. I have already noticed that the ridge of the Rewah 

 sandstone and shales becomes lost towards the S. W., under the trap re- 

 gion ; Buxwaho is the last place at which I got a glimpse of the lower 

 flaggy beds, the base being already there smothered in basalt. In the 

 N. W. direction the same interference extends to Maltoun, perhaps be- 

 yond, but here these trap rocks themselves assume the form of table- 



