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highly stratified, and vertically disposed ; the layers seldom exceed 11 in. 

 in thickness. The specimens from this locality are marked A. 



Nos. 1, 2, and 3, are loose specimens from the plain; 2 and 3 would 

 be found, I think, to enter into the hills. The superstratum of the hills 

 is a sandy clay marl, which continues nearly the whole way to Neem- 

 panee. [See notice at the foot of this article. — Ed.] 



No. 4 is a specimen of the only limestone found near Baitool ; it rises 

 abruptly about 10 feet from the bed of a nullah of calcareous sand- 

 stone. The limestone No. 5 occurs lying on the right of the road 

 about 5 miles N. of Baitool, and crosses the road at the bottom of a 

 small ravine. 



The pudding stone No. 6 appears about 10 miles from Baitool, to the 

 east of the road, elevated above the plain a foot or so only ; it is exceed- 

 ingly hard, broken with great difficulty, and chips off then in thin flat 

 conchoidal pieces. After crossing the nullah at Neempanee, the trap 

 rock No. 7 rises above a black alluvial soil, and rounded masses of 10 

 and 1 1 are scattered about. Farther on, the road becomes full of ra- 

 vines, and the gneiss, 11, is found in mass, but in intimate connection 

 with the unstratified rock 10. The trap 10 in many places shows itself 

 superincumbent on 10 and 11. At the top of the Neempanee ghat, 

 the granite, No. 9, forms nearly the whole summit of the hill, mixed, 

 however, with 10, and the northern descent of the ghat is principally 

 composed of this latter. After passing the ghat at the banks of a 

 nullah, is a low hill of granite and greenstone together, 12 and 13. 

 This latter occurred also above the Neempanee ghat, shooting up 

 through the soil in roundish masses, and near Baitool, to the N. E. of 

 cantonments : the walls of the fort of Keeslah have been built with the 

 same stone. It is met with occasionally proceeding north, intermixed 

 with quartz, until arriving near to Shahpoor, where common trap re- 

 appears, and thence the remainder of the road is over a sandy clay soil. 

 3rd Division. — The 3rd division includes the country between the 

 Machna river and the nullah, one and half mile south of Keeslah, and is 

 bounded on the W. by the small range of Jamgurh hills, which is a 

 ramification from the Mahadeo hills, after they change their direction 

 to the S. W. 



After passing the Machna at Shahpoor all traces of granite are lost, 

 and the sandstones B, 1 and 2, become very general. The sand- 

 stone strata extend with very little interruption from Shahpoor to 

 Keeslah, and to the foot of the Bhoragurh and Jamgurh hills, frequently 

 showing themselves above the alluvial soil, and traversed occasionally 

 by veins of quartz and trap, as at a nullah half way between Shah- 

 poor and the Bhora nuddee, where a trap vein (No. 4) about 12 yards 



