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OF THE 
BelATIC SOCIETY. 
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Parr I.—PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 
a a ee ae 
No. III.—1866. 
TN aad 
Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains, a geological 
paper by Ausert M. Vercuirs, Esqg., Bengal Medical Service ; with 
@ note on the fossils by M. Epouarp pe Vernevit, Membre de 
V Académie des Sciences, Paris. 
(Continued from page 133.) 
Leaving with regret the Zeeawan spur, we will continue our 
examination of the Zebanwan mountain along its southern aspect. 
(See Map B.) (Section III. on General Map.) 4a | ; 
We first cross a considerable mass of volcanic rocks, well stratified, 
and which we will not stop to describe, as they are similar to the 
felspathic ashes, black slates and the amygdaloid seen before. They 
present, however, a few layers of a coarsely crystalline limestone, 
without fossils and interbedded with layers of ash; some of this lime- 
stone is quite black and remarkably well crystallized in small crystals 
of jet-black spar. It would be a valuable ornamental marble, if found 
in some quantity. Ihave only seen it in thin and small patches, 
accompanying an amygdaloidal dust-stone of fine texture, but much 
decayed and nearly as black as the limestone. These patches of black 
rock are well seen on the slope of the long spurs which descend 
towards the 8. H., from the highest summits of the Zebanwan. These 
volcanic rocks dip easterly, and their inclination is not more than 20° 
to 25°. 
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