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dirty white quartz. This bed is evidently a continuation of the last 
bed of the Tukt-i-Suliman (80 of section A), and the road passes over 
a synclinal, which would be very evident, were it not for the inwrap- 
ping arrangement of the slate at both extremities of the bed. As we 
go up the hill, we observe that the bed forms a small eminence of its 
own, being separated by a fault from the western beds which have a 
general south-easterly dip. It extends for about a thousand yards 
along the southern aspect of the hill, wheeling round and, as it were, 
lining the foot of the spur, its dip becoming gradually more southerly 
until it is 8. W. 
2. Following our section, we find, after the fault, the same alter- 
nate disposition of felspathic ash with nodules of augite, of dark 
slate more or less laminated, baked and metamorphosed, and of vol- 
canic agglomerate full of dark coloured lapilli. It would be tedious and 
unprofitable to give a minute description of each bed, especially as 
the enumeration would be a long one, each bed being seldom more 
than 10 feet in thickness. No greenstone was seen for more than 
half a mile; the ashes are always tolerably compact when not in a de- 
composed state, and always invaded by innumerable nodules of augite. 
They are always well stratified, and it appears therefore evident that 
the whole of the ejecta fell into water, by which they were arranged 
in well defined strata. The amygdaloidal condition of nearly all 
the rocks, whether ash or slate, seems to indicate that the water was 
raised to a high temperature during the volcanic eruptions ; and the 
want of animal remains in the slate beds and amongst the agglome- 
rates is in accordance with this hypothesis. 
It goes on, as I said before, for above half a mile, alternating ash 
and slate, with occasionally a dirty-brownish bed of rotten and cal- 
careous ash decomposing very fast and throwing out, on its surface 
and also between its joints, a large quantity of kunkur. The strike 
of the beds turns gradually to true N. §. and the dip is H., the angle 
with the horizon being between 60° and 70°. Beds of laterite now 
begin to appear, of a yellowish grey colour and resembling indurated 
clay. They are alittle harder than slate, sparingly amygdaloidal, 
and the geodes are very small and filled with quartz. They break 
into small cuboid fragments. These laterites are interstratified with 
beds of dark slate, and lying over them we get the following strata :— 
