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a work of more recent date, and which is, from its nature, more likely 

 to be referred to than the memoir of Captain Franklin, which dates some 

 thirty years ago. 



In his summary of the geology of India, published in the Journal of 

 the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 Vol. V., page 179, (read in 1853), Dr. Carter has 

 taken this district of Bundelcund, as typical for his great Oolitic formation, 

 and has taken also Captain Franklin as his chief authority. In this for- 

 mation, he includes the coal rocks of Bengal, &c, the lignite sandstone 

 of the N. Western Himalaya, and a variety of rocks in the more southern 

 part of the Peninsula. 



It is to be much regretted that Dr. Carter had no opportunity of test- 

 ing the accuracy of his data by personal observation, for the errors are 

 such as could not have been made by any one who had seen the ground, 

 in even the most cursory way. The lowest division he calls Tar a 

 Sandstone identifying it conditionally with some rocks in the Rajmahal 

 district, described by Dr. McClelland, as " Old Red Sandstone."* The 

 second group he calls Kuttra Shales, including shales, limestone and 

 coal, — « this term has been taken from the Kuttra Ghat, where Franklin 

 " and Jacquemont saw respectively the Tara Sandstone passing into 

 " argillaceous strata, limestone on the second plateau, bituminous shale 

 " cropping out in the glens of the Boghin, and anthracite in a well, so 

 " that representatives of all these sub-divisions of this member of our 

 " oolitic series are thus found to exist, in Bundelcund, although more de- 

 " veloped elsewhere." Dr. Carter's third and overlying group is the 

 diamond sandstone of Punna. It will be sufficient here to remark that 

 the Shales in the Boghin, noticed above, are under what Dr. Carter 

 has taken as his Tara Sandstone or Old Red of McClelland ; and that 



* Report of Geological Survey, 1848-49, p. 34. To prevent any repetition of erroneous 

 reasoning on these rocks, I may state here that the rocks described by that author as below 

 the coal, are in reality above it, and cannot therefore be even conditionally called " Uld 

 Red."— T. Oldham. 



