186 Mr. Verchére on the Geology of Kashmir, [No. 3, 
The rocks which overhang the well-known Arckbal Garden, near 
the western foot of the hill, are a rough grey limestone similar to 
the grey coarse limestone seen on the Islamabad hill, (see No. 27 
of the section of that hill), full of sand and other impurities. It 
dips W. by 8. 52°, There appear to be beds of shales between 
the limestone courses, and these shales by their decomposition 
furnish the fertile soil on which grow the fine forests of those 
hills. 
The foot.of the Arckbal hill is therefore Weean limestone and 
shales. 
I then proceeded to the small village of Kothair, on the eastern 
side of the Arckbal hill, in a small valley situated between it 
and Karpur. The rock of the spur of Arckbal, which extends to- 
wards Pahaloo, is a whitish or greyish limestone with very few fossils, 
and interbedded with beds of calcareous slate, apparently belonging 
also to the Weean group. 
From Kothair, the path to the mines, crosses a couple of small 
spurs which have a direction §. to N. until we arrive at the ridge 
which unites Dhar and Tippoo and has a direction W. N. W.—HE. 8S. E. 
The spurs above mentioned are composed of marly limestone, 
either lustreless and velvety pale blue or dark blue, weathering frosted. 
The beds are very badly seen, on account of the vegetation and 
humus. Where the limestone crops out, it seems to be dipping 
S. E. or E. 8. E. with a very variable but considerable angle. “The 
beds of limestone appear to be separated one from the other by 
thick beds of shales and slate. The limestone has exactly the appear- 
ance of that seen a little higher up, and which we shall see contains 
fossis characteristic of the Kothair bed; but I failed, however, to find 
organisms in the present beds. 
48. The iron-ore is obtained from the sides of the main ridge 
between Dhar and Tippoo. The ridge presents many beds of very 
argillaceous limestone of a lustreless bright blue colour, dipping 8. 8. W. 
with an angle of 45°. This limestone is remarkable for the large 
number of gasteropods it contains; it is also rich in corals, especially 
of the Cyathophyllide, but the fossils appear generally as sections 
or outlines on the surface of the rock, and I could not obtain any of 
them whole, 
