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The second sandstone range in which the JuUock, Gundava, 

 and other passes are situated, extends also to an unknown distance 

 in an easterly direction, but towards the west, near Shahpoor, it ap- 

 proaches and eventually abuts upon the first limestone range. 



North. Section from Murray Hills to The Desert. South. 



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No. 7. Conglomerate of Deyrah Valley. No. 3. Sandstone of second range. 

 6. Sandstones and clays. 2. Sandstone of first range. 



5. Bone gravel. 1. Nummulitic limestone. 



4. Conglomerate. 



I annex a section running nearly north and south, that is, at right 

 angles to the direction of the mountain ranges, and along the pitch 

 of the strata. It is drawn up from memory, and though not exactly 

 correct, is sufficiently near the truth. 



Between the place called Ooch and Shahpoor low sandstone hills 

 make their appearance, belonging to the outer range. The dip of 

 the strata is different on different hills, but the mean inclination is 

 south (that is towards the Desert), at about 12°. A diluvial gravel 

 is spread over the whole, the boulders varying from the size of 

 a man's head to the smallest pebble ; these boulders are present on 

 the highest parts of the sandstone ranges, and are derived from the 

 nummulitic limestone to the northward ; they contain the same 

 fossils, and have the same mineral structure. Ooch is a remarkable 

 place, and deserves a special notice : it is a point upon which I 

 should be disposed to think volcanic force may have formerly acted. 

 It is a valley about half a mile in breadth and two and a half miles 

 in length, and its direction is curved, at first tending towards the 

 east, but soon turning north-east and N.N.E. The sandstone dips 

 from the valley on each side at an angle of about 15°, presenting 

 an abrupt face inwards of about 200 feet in height. The surface of 

 the rock, is strewed with nummulitic limestone, which consists of 

 gravel with a few small quartz pebbles intermixed, and the sandstone 

 is partially capped with a more recent gravelly sandstone of from 

 two to four feet in thickness, containing numerous Nummulites and 

 a few rolled moUusca. Beneath the sandstone there is an aluminous 

 clay, and the whole is penetrated with veins of foliated gypsum, 

 some of which are of considerable thickness, but neither the sand- 

 stone nor aluminous clay afford fossils. The central portion of the 

 valley is highly saline, as are most of tlie springs; the saline matter 

 (chiefly soda?) effloresces, and could be collected in any quantity. I 

 was told that a tepid spring existed in the centre of the valley, but 

 1 was unable to discover it. 



From Ooch to JuUock Pass, in an tasteily direction forty miles, 



