70 BUNDELCUND. 



The position of this deposit is somewhat of a puzzle; the layer must 

 be looked on as one, although shifting its place in the group ; there is 

 but one conglomerate bed and it seems continuous, though so various in 

 composition ; it manifests a steady tendency to rise in the section from 

 west to east; the pebbles are of the same character all through, and it 

 is strange, how, as regards matrix, they just seem to adopt the character 

 of the set of beds they associate with. I suspect that the ferruginous 

 element in the looser variety is altogether subsequent to the rock. 



As regards the extension of this diamond deposit, there are some 



manifest probabilities; a single conglomerate layer 

 Extension. 



isolated anions; fine alternating materials has 



per se a precarious existence ; I have, a few pages back, described a 

 conglomerate of no great thickness, persisting for many miles, but it is 

 throughout, a bottom rock, covering a surface of crystallines, whereas 

 this layer shows an inclination to lose itself among the upper shales of 

 the Rewah group ; even in the short distance for which we see it in 

 situ, it has run itself out in height, along the strike of the general in- 

 clination. Beside this general remark we have the special analogy of 

 the red conglomerate of the Ky mores ; within a few miles of this, near 

 Gungour, it shows in unbroken masses of fifty feet thick, yet, at five 

 miles to the south it has died out, being evidently a coast formation ; 

 it is probable that the diamond layer has a similar and a shorter fate in 

 the same directoin. 



It is difficult to say how far the Scigacity of the natives may have 



rightly determined its exact limits ; within certain 

 Limits of deposit. . 



areas the ground is almost exhausted, yet they never 



attempt rock diggings beyond these areas : on most boundaries the 



reason is plainly that the edge of the outlier has been reached, but in 



some cases I could make no suppositon but that the layer had been 



found to die out. With such a characteristic ore it would be easy by 



a few shallow open cuts in chosen places, to settle the chances of the 



