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half a dozen places where there are small traces of one or the 
other, enough to attract notice in the minute examination of the 
country by its inhabitants. About half of all the places are in 
the northeastern corner of the region; about half toward the 
southwestern corner; and one or two in the northwestern corner 
toward the middle. 
The Aluggud oil (now dried to asphalt) seems to have come 
other things would rather show that they were of later age. If 
they are Carboniferous, then the nummulitic rocks are wanting 
above them, and have thinned completely away from a thickness 
of 2,000 feet; only thirty miles distant. This oil is also the only 
case of oil outside of the older Tertiary rocks anywhere In the 
whole region. 
All the other oil springs or shows of oil in the southern part 
of the region, are on the northern side of the Salt Range, and in 
the nummulitic limerock or close above it. The northern ones 
are either in the nummulitic lime rock of the Choor Hills, the same 
probably as that of Salt Range; or in the Gunda rocks (chiefly 
sandrocks) that lie south of them, also accompanied by num- 
mulites, 
In every case the oil seems to come from a depen of very small 
horizontal extent, sometimes only a few feet, seldom as much as 
the oil comes from a much smaller thickness of rock, from fort 
Scarcely do any two oil springs come from the same bed o age 
The oil is dark green in color, and so heavy as to mark 25° of 
Beaumd’s scale, or even less, ‘The Gunda oil has been burned 3 
little by the natives with a simple wick, resting on the side of an 
flam 
highly prized forty years ago by the natives as medicine, taken in 
Pills, especially eg BE i es Tt was carried far and — 
and was called “negro’s fat,” because it was enerally believ 
o have dripped from the brain of a negro that ad been hung up 
by the heels before a slow fire. 
