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NERBUDDA DISTRICT. 



arrive at a fair estimate. It may be well to mention, however, that we be- 

 lieve there is sound reason to think that several hundred feet of thickness 

 are really here exposed— a conclusion at variance with that arrived at by 

 Mr. Hislop. That geologist, in a paper in the Jour. Asiat. Soc. Beng. Vol. 

 XXIV, p. 347, gives the thickness of the rocks below the Mahadeva 

 sandstone at 85 feet. 



Fig, 7, Mahadeva Hiils, seen from the valley of the Upper Deinwa. 



Returning to the Nerbudda valley, and proceeding eastward to the 

 gorge through which the Sita Riva River escapes from the Hills into the 

 plain, the following section is exposed : — 



