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mountains, not distinguishable at a short distance from those of the 

 sandstone. It is not of much consequence to know to which group of 

 the Vindhyans these sandstone hills extending to the N. W. belong ; I 

 can only conjecture that they represent either of the upper two, perhaps 

 both, though they immediately overlie a conglomerate which is traceable 

 almost without a break to the base of the Kymore sandstone ; the clue 

 of shales is not available, at least in any of those hills that I visited I 

 could not find any trace of a softer rock — there probably is an inducing 

 cause for so constant a feature, but any shales that may exist must be 

 very subordinate, and, without fossils can hardly serve for identification. 

 This second range of hills is as conspicuous opposite Nurwur as they are 

 immediately south of the scarp above Sorai. 



With regard however to the continuation of the Rewah ridge to the S. 

 W. under the trappean region, Captain Coulthard mentions several 

 places to north and west of Saugor where slaty beds underlie the mas- 

 sive sandstone in the hills weathered out from the trap; he identified 

 them lithologically with the thin bedded rocks under the " Lias" at 

 Huttah on the Rewah ledge, and he remarks of the group that " the eye 

 never perceives any inclination worth mentioning or deviation from the 

 horizontal position." 



It may be of some use to whoever takes up the examination of the 

 Gwalior rocks that I should give my passing remarks thereon. 



In looking westwards from Bunwar, a gradual fall is evident in the 



height of the granite junction along the Vindhyan 

 Gwalior rocks. -mi 



scarp, northward from Kureya point. The east- 

 west range is not at all so high as that going north and south, and the 

 granite on it does not reach to more than about 300 feet. It seems 

 most probable that the Vindhyans continue unbroken along the high 

 ground a short way to the west of Puniar and Gwalior ; but the strata 

 between Bunwar and Gwalior are of a very different type: over the 

 village of Par, the section is thus noted : — " instead of the old table-land 



