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pears ridged with slightly elevated lines and intervening hollows. 

 These hollows are many of them still filled with the pliocene clays 

 to a level with the upturned edges of the sandstone, &c. The plio- 

 cene is deep-bedded on both banks of the Sewan river ; the conglo- 

 merate on the right bank, deep-bedded and held together by a cal- 

 careous cement, caps the yellow marl, and is nearly horizontal. 



Crossing the Sewan to Rawul-Pindee, about ten miles : at about 

 the third mile, and in the deeply-excavated bed of a branch (or tribu- 

 tary) of the Sewan, I again found the upturned edges of the red 

 shale, clay, sandstone, and conglomerate, which are here nearly 

 vertical ; the dip slight and southerly ; the strike east by north and 

 west by south. 



In a thin bed of conglomerate, with red shale above and below it, 

 I found part of a large tusk, which belonged either to a mastodon or 

 elephant ; this broken specimen, in situ, was about 2 feet in length, 

 4 or 5 inches in diameter, and strongly curved. I shattered it 

 to pieces in an attempt to dislodge it. The cement of the conglo- 

 merate is very hard and tinged with the red colour of the shale, as 

 was also the fossil. 



I noticed here that thin beds of conglomerate and sandstone often 

 alternated. The higher land forming the banks of the river at this 

 place are capped with conglomerate resting on yellow marls, the 

 whole resting on the edges of the red shale, &c. 



I found Pupce and Helices in the clay. Farther on, in the direc- 

 tion of Rawul-Pindee, there are sections of thin clay 200 feet in 

 height. From these I collected numerous Melanice, Helix (or Vi- 

 trina), Pupce, and other terrestrial or lacustrine shells. 



In the bed of a small water-course, about a mile south-east of 

 Rawul-Pindee, I again came upon the red shales and conglomerate, 

 with the strike and dip noted above. The conglomerate and sand- 

 stone here have an intensely hard cement, and the pebbles in the 

 former are small. Firmly imbedded in the weathered surface of these 

 beds I detected numerous fossil bones ; I was hurried at the time (on 

 the line of march), and could only disengage a few broken fragments. 



From Rawul-Pindee to Jianee-Sung, thirteen miles and a half : over 

 the pliocene for the greater portion of distance : in many places I re- 

 marked large masses, or rather irregular rocks of travertine, partly 

 or altogether disengaged from the yellow pliocene clays ; and in some 

 sections near Jianee-Sung I observed this travertine forming distinct 

 beds in the yellow marl, having its upper portion soft and porous, 

 but becoming hard and solid downwards. 



From Jianee-Sung one mile and a half to the Murgullee Pass, and 

 the range of hills through which it leads ; the land gradually rises ; 

 the surface is everywhere covered with loose rounded boulders, many 

 of which are nummulitic limestone. Sections obtained near the base 

 of the Hill-range exhibited the same conglomerates and thick-bedded 

 yellow marls previously noticed. I was unable to obtain any par- 

 ticular name for this range of mountains ; I shall therefore call it 

 the "Murgullee Range," from the name of the Pass. Their direc- 

 tion coincides with the strike, viz. east by north and west by south ; 



