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the valley, but, farther to the south (at a. see diagram Fig. 15,2) 

 may, by descending along the side of that spur, be seen to rest on 

 the edges of the schist beds, as represented, and not faulted against 

 them, as in the former case. This second spur now slopes down to 

 the north, in the place where a head-land of the ancient shore formerly 

 stood out, towards the south, into the waters in which the Mahadeva 

 sandstones were being accumulated, and thus the line of fault, which has 

 for the most part determined the boundary of those rocks, passed north 

 of the old shore in this place. 



Near Hinhotia (12 miles S. of Nursingpur, see map) the Mahadeva 

 sandstones may be again seen both faulted against, 



Hinhotia section. 



and resting on the schists and the granite; far- 

 ther to the east, near Gungye, the fault may be again studied, and is 

 again seen near Butchye. 



The Sher Nuddi exposes, close to Sehora village, a section in 



which a fault is clearly seen (see map and sec- 

 Sehora Section. 



tion No. 1), here the beds of the upper Damu- 



da series are brought against the crystalline limestone. But the 



fault is in the prolongation of the fault-line we have been considering, 



and which has up to here, formed the north boundary of the Maha- 



devas. 



Farther to the east, the great sandstone and conglomerates of that 



group are either absent altogether or hidden 



Lameta beds take the 



position of the Mahadeva under the trap. But at the base of the hills, 



proper. 



which here form the south side of the Nerbudda 

 valley, are seen, under the trap, beds of the Lameta series, while 

 the valley itself is still formed of the vertical schists mostly covered 

 by the ossiferous sands, clays, and alluvial black soil. The prolonga- 

 tion of the line of the fault we have been considering is still, how- 

 ever, marked by evidence of disturbance, precisely analogous to what 

 we have detected along its course. 



