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The laterite hills north of the Jermohra have quite the character of 

 tableland; I did not notice in them any of the underlying sand ; as a rea- 

 son, there is the greater height on which they stand. The peak of laterite 

 on the lofty outlier south of Manikpore is a useful landmark. 



These are the only places at which the identity of the sections allows 



one to assert confidently the equivalence of the 

 Doubtful cases. . . 



rocks, but there are other abnormal positions to 



which I will draw attention : I did not take particular notice of them at 



the time but my recollections and my hasty notes induce me to think 



these rocks lithologically the same as the typical laterite. One locality is 



on the right bank of the Pysunnee shortly after it leaves the hills, the 



laterite appears to occupy a synclinal in the contorted sandstones, their 



contact is not seen. Another is on the top of an isolated hill over the 



village of Puharee, on the road from Tirhowan to Mhow ghat : here I 



was almost led to think that the laterite formed a dyke, there is but a 



small patch of it at the south point of the hill, and below it on each side 



there is a gully : low down in one of these the villagers had dug a hole* 



and the rock exposed was the laterite ; it may have been but a large block, 



(a question of no small importance as to the origin of aterite, and one 



which a very small amount of labour would settle.) 



As to the former extension of this group there is little ground of 



conjecture. From Dulputpoor to Simeriah it has 

 Its former extension. , . ..... 



not varied importantly in kind or in amount, 



though the underlying rocks are so changed and the difference of level 



must be nearly 1,000 feet, moreover here at its eastern extremity it stands 



on the highest rocks as well as on the lowest. It is only in special 



cases that its debris can give any hints, such as the large blocks now 



found on the distant eastern outliers of the Bundairs, as Sirboohill, — table 



mountains, 700 feet high, many miles removed from their main-land. 



It is not improbable that this laterite once covered the greater part of 



the Vindhyan plateau. 



