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they sink a shaft, 30 or 40 feet deep, when they might reach the ore by 

 a gallery of half that length ; I could imagine but two possible reasons 

 for this, that the shaft serves too as a trial pit, and that it does not 

 require the artificial support which would be necessary for the mouth of 

 a gallery. 



At Dooreha, just over the edge of the plateau, there is a hill about 



200 .feet high, resting on the Bundair sandstone ; 

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it is of the latente group, chiefly the lower mem- 

 ber. On the ridge of the Rewah sandstones near Punnah there are several 

 such hills : again some way up on the slope of the Kymore sandstones, 

 at the head of the gorge of the Runj near Ranipore there is another 

 similar outlier: but where they are most frequent and extensive is at the 

 end of the Rewah ridge, before it becomes a mere scarp — just west of 

 Simeriah is a hill some 300 feet high, the lower third is of the Bundair 

 grits and shales, at top are some 30 feet of the rock-laterite, the immedi- 

 ate supporter of this is not seen, but most of the space between it and the 

 shales is composed of an amorphous accumulation of light yellow, pebbly, 

 siliceous sand, loosely cemented by clay: on the hill to the north of this 

 the section is similar, but the shales have already become extinct, the 

 foundation here being Rewah sandstone, and the laterite at top is about 

 60 feet thick. 



The sandy clay foundation on these two hills is a new element 

 in the section, isolating the laterite further still from the basalt; it 

 does not however itself appear to be quite disconnected from the laterite 

 group, for in it I got discontinuous bands of the white and ochreous clay. 

 I also found in it a piece of the jaw of a ruminant ; but I only look 

 upon this as a hint and not a discovery, for the specimen may be recent. 

 The position however is not an unlikely one for fossils, and a comparison 

 between them and those of the lacustrine deposit on the one hand and 

 those of the great river valleys on the other, would be most interesting. 

 There is an appearance of a similar deposit under the laterite at Ranipore. 



