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a, The bed with the spur brought up again after the fault, ...... 20. ft. 
6. The micaceous sandstone, thin and false-bedded, with well marked 
ees AA MME Reais sto ere iclascrsign ders secis cele v sARAU Laisaisoeie Sub aee ae i idbel evades 16 ft. 
c. Hoetid pale brown, calcareous sandstone, viz. false-bedded; no fossils ; 
dips. H. 8. EH. 30°.., 98100060000 doo od Dob0aRH000D HoDOGOBOM ODO dbHAgIOeO coGOUoHOG | tle ahi, 
d. Shales; no fossils, aelentsuieles Mslobecielesiele(ostit}rieslsseiscrisocetere ci satechestni nn li LOOLE 
e. Limestone, compact and danke erey, ait weathering oi It is much 
- shivered, and is divided by innumerable white lines crossing each other. No 
fossils except what appear to be worm-burrows filled with sandy ochre, 15 ft. 
Ff. Very argillaceous limestone of a pale blue colour, with patches of a dirty 
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29. I consider that these beds are the top of the Weean division of 
the carboniferous limestone of the Himalaya, as the following beds 
show a very great difference in their fauna, which is nearly entirely 
confined to gasteropods and corals, the gasteropods presenting a great 
variety of shape and size. The corals of the Cyathophyllide are 
abundant and of considerable dimensions. The crinoid stems, some of 
them minute and starred, continue to be seen everywhere. The beds 
characterized by gasteropods and corals form the Kothair bed, which 
we shall see better developed elsewhere. 
Continuing our section, we have therefore, resting on the argilla- 
ceous limestone, the following layers : 
g. Limestone, fine grained, blue, compact and argillaceous, with patches of 
dirty yellow. It contains many fragments of fossils, nearly entirely gasteropods. 
Some of these are two inches in length. Starry rings of crinoid stems 
abundant. The limestone becomes gradually of a richer blue colour, some 
portions being indeed light blue; it weathers rugose like frosted glass. The 
upper part contains no gasteropods, but fossil roots and rootlets the size of 
the finger. It 1s about 25 feet thick, 20.22. ..0..6..ce sos caestersrrerseecss 25 ft. 
This is all we see here of the Kothair bed, as a fault running N. S. 
brings up again the Weean bed; but this patch of the Kothair 
is interesting, as showing its relation to the Weean bed, a relation 
which I have not been able to trace so well anywhere else. The 
Weean and Kothair beds are quite conformable. 
On the other side of the fault we find : 
a. A limestone, bluish-grey and compact; weathering sandy and dull 
grey. Itis divided in layers by several sandy partings. It contains only 
a few encrinite stems and dotted white patches which are probably decomposed 
fossils. It is shivered and traversed by innumerable white lines,...... 20 ft. 
