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1. Quartzite, bluish grey, gritty and rough, .....,...........cceenes een 2 ft. 
2. Trap, having a shaly appearance, A great deal of kunkur is seen along 
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3. Quartzite, ee ee Ze ieee a very peculiar appearance : 
it is divided in meshes like a very coarse travertin, or rather like lead which 
has been dropped in cold water while in a melted state. There is however a 
certain pretty well marked stratification or superposition of courses. The 
rock looks like a siliceous paste which had solidified suddenly when in a sate 
of ebullition, It first dips W. about 50°, increasing gradually to the vertical 
and then inclining the other way, dipping 8. E. 80°. It, however, soon becomes 
vertical and gradually dips again W. 50°,...........sseeseeccssssscesssvceees 40 ft. 
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5. Limestone, crystalline and metamorphosed ; no organisms. Weathering 
rough ; much stained by iron-OXde,........ccesseeceseeeceetceseesecseeserses 8 fb, 
6. Zeeawan limestone with the usual fossils; dips W. 40°,..,...... 50 ft. 
dee Meeaiwam PLOW SHALES, ces-oicc.sercesoicdsersicu ive sindteoliseseciies sncileeves 10 ft, 
8. Slate; coarse, micaceous. Squeezed by proximity to a fault; no fossils P 
A fanlt, from N. E.—S. W. with a downthrow or the southern side. The 
slates are partially in the fault, 
37. If we ascend the next spur, Barus spur, from the south, pretty 
high up the little ravine, and make our way to the monumental 
“ Ling” which crowns the hill,* we see nothing but trap and 
ashes which have been brought up again on the northern side of the 
fault. The top of the hill is covered with grass and debris which 
prevent the rocks being seen in situ, but many pieces of ash, amyg- 
daloid and white quartzite are seen loose on the earth, showing that the 
usual quartzite bed exists here. On the western and north-western 
aspect of the hillock, the rocks are uncovered and we have the follow- 
ing series. 
Prap and VOLCANIC ASH.....ssccssesecvesseoeccosssersecaes ooangdeboonondsday G0 
Ml rreMraZb eat aewac cok dea sietalot as vcteis tig sais cinclapstoaveSatielsode cide ta dalerelsedyveaiees ; 
Here two beds are ane He earth, ag atonal above. 
1. Zeeawan limestone with usual fossils, Dips W. 50°,............ 40 fb. 
2. Greyish-blue limestone without fossils,................ceseeneeensees 15 ft. 
3. Beds concealed by vegetable earth and by lacustrine deposits 30 ft. 
4, Shaly limestone with few and broken shells..................... vee 40 ft, 
* This is, 1 believe, one of the largest, if not the largest “ Ling” or “ Em: 
blem of Creation.’ It measures 14 feet in circumference and was about 20 
feet high, The base is hexagonal; the preputial line isin relief, and appears 
to have been carved. This monster ling is now broken in two or three pieces, 
and the upper half is prostrate on the ground; the hexagonal base and about, 
6 feet of the body of the ling are still standing. 
