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ness, varying however a good deal in places. There are remains of a Buddhist 
quarry in this bed. 
The three beds have together a thickness of about .................. 200 ft. 
4. White and friable sandstone, apparently a compressed quartzose sand 
without cement. It dips N. EH. by H. 25°. It contains traces of fossils. It is 
remarkably well seen near the Karaise or Irrigation Canal which is cut on the 
flank of the hill.* It is a thm bed and presents variations of color and aspect. 
itiasvonlyione and shalt foot bhiekea pn ndescdesleecbuatseciia ds seivaciseciasigsseereee 13 ft. 
FauArorllaccousiblmeNlintestoue eassmclacdsscine cesses sesteseensieciessissce aim methT= 
6. Yellow sandstone, calcareous, not very hard, much disturbed and faulted, 
the faults, which are small and short, being at right angles to the strike. The 
sandstone has a thickness Of ADOUL ...........020ssecnscocsscccesersosseeeses LO) fb. 
In this sandstone, which, by the bye, does occasionally pass into 
lenticular patches of impure arenaceous limestone, a great many sections 
or outlines of large bivalves and some small ones were seen; but no 
shell in a tolerable state of perfection could be obtained; I, however, 
made drawings of the outlines presented by these bivalves, on the 
weathered flank of the rock. When I first saw these outlines, I did 
not know of the large Anthracosie, Pectens and Aviculo-pectens 
which exist in the Weean group, and it appeared poor and ungrateful 
work to copy them. Soon after, however, I found the <Avzculo- 
pectens and other bivalves represented at Pl. VI. fig. 3, and Pl. VIL. 
fig. 4, 4a, and my sketches of the sections came in very opportunely, 
proving, in the absence of better fossil evidence, the Weean nature 
of the Hapatikri limestone. 
7. Very hard and brilliant white quartzose sandstone, .....0...+.. 10 ft. 
8. Sandstone, yellow and soft, like 6,. ApoeccaneooubooDboscnooic. | BD) Mili 
These sandstone beds are uhpee wavy al ete as if they had 
suffered from lateral pressure. The limestone above and below participates 
but very triflingly in these undulations. 
9. Sandy limestone, blue and compact. The debris of small fossils, 10 ft. 
10. Dark shales, slightly carbonaceous. In this bed, casts of roots of 
trees with a concentric arrangement and, in rare cases, the vegetable cells 
filled with coal, were seen. The roots are generally thoroughly petrified ; they 
are numerous and mostly horizontally (to dip) arranged; they are branching 
and haye generally a starry disposition like Stigmaria. Some pieces of these 
* This canal was apparently intended to brine some of the waters of the 
Lidar to the Martand plateau ; but it was never finished, and it is now falling 
into ruin, It is said to have been begun during the reign of the Mogul Emperors 
of Delhi; it igs a work of considerable extent, 
