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seen, it rests on a very thin-bedded series, alternating sandy, earthy, 

 sometimes calcareous and ferruginous layers — these often have the 

 appearance of resting on a dense crystalline greenstone, and apparently 

 are jaspldified and locally contorted thereby; though at the same time 

 preserving a general conformability to the massive sandstone above. 



The neighbourhood abounds in interesting points of inquiry, which, 

 but for the disturbed state of the country, I should have taken up during 

 the cold season just closed. 



I cannot conjecture how so massive and so undisturbed a formation as 

 that of the Gwalior sandstone, can, within so short a distance, be brought 

 into relation with the Vindhyans; and that this will have to be done, 

 my next observation makes almost certain. North of Nourabad there 

 is an isolated hill about 150 feet high; its des- 

 cription might pass for that of an outlier of the 

 Rewah scarp to north of Nagode — "there are at top the remnants 

 of a coarse loose sandstone, roughly bedded and obliquely laminat- 

 ed; under it are thin earthy grits and crumbling shales, yellow, red 

 and creenish, quite horizontal. The identity is so remarkable that I 

 cannot but look upon these for the present as upper Vindhyans, though 

 200 miles distant from their scarp, where last noticed ; however it is 

 but 30 miles from Kureya where I left the Kymore conglomerate." 

 The only other rock within reach of my road confirmed this last sec- 

 tion. "The north-east — south-west ridge ending at Dholepore and 

 bounding the valley of the Chumbul on the north is, in profile, 

 like a flat wedge, pointing north-west : at a distance this is seen to 

 be the dip of the beds, though on the spot they appear horizontal ; 

 the south face is steep, with a sharp edge ; over this edge, some 

 little distance back, the hill attains its full height in a rounded 

 form ; all this upper part is sandstone and its weathering back is seen 

 to be due only to the greater massiveness and strength of the bottom 



