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and this proximity to a large fault might perhaps account for the metamor- 
phosed appearance of the clay. 
Favutt. The fault is about 500 
feet wide, and is filled with 
zig-zagged slate, ash and 
laterite. A very great deal 
of kunkur is found all over 
the eround. This fault goes 
right across the hill, from 
near the ruin of Pari Ma- 
hal to the small spur over 
1. Slate. 2. Massive Laterite or Baked Clay. 3 
3. Slate, Ash and Laterite in the fault. the village of Pandrettan. 
4. Amygdaloidal Greenstone. 
East of the fault, the rocks are very different; they are rocks similar to 
those we saw at the foot of the Tukt-i-Suliman ; viz. greenstone and amygda- 
loid, and there has been therefore a downthrow on the west of the fault. The 
strike is very different on both sides of the fault. We have seen that on the 
west side it is S. W.—N. EH. with an eastern dip; the greenstone and amyg- 
daloid strike S. H.—N. W., dipping to the N. H. 
There is no occasion to describe these greenstones and amygdaloids 
again, as I have done so before at the foot of the Tukt-i-Suliman. But 
we must notice here a very great quantity of what I have called gas- 
vents; the amygdaloidal greenstone is in some places completely per- 
forated by these vents which are sometimes filled with quartz, 
sometimes with augite, and sometimes left empty. (See figs. 1. la, 
Bx) 
20. Crossing the broad ravine above the village of Pandrettan, a 
ravine in which once flourished a Buddhist city of which the ruined 
walls are still to be traced, we notice a spur composed of dark and 
brittle basalt, much jointed but not columnar. It is interstratified 
with a volcanic ash, similar to that seen in the Rustun Gurree. The 
end of the spur presents a fine example of beds of ash and laterite 
inwrapping or infolding subjacent beds: the spur is narrow and the 
layers of ash and laterite are bent down on each side of it, just as a layer 
of paste laid across a ruler would by its weight bend on each side of 
the ruler. The dip of the beds is N. E., and consequently the strike 
is obliquely across the spur which has a W. south-western direction, 
and when we look up the hill, facing to the N. H., we can then see the 
beds of ash and laterite cropping out one above the other, like steps, 
