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and lime mixed with sulphur [?] ; this is most remarkable on the Agsun* 

 Kheyl side. The limestone above-mentioned affords very good quick 

 lime for building ; and the stone itself is also very useful for the 

 same purpose. The water found in springs at the foot of the hill 

 has a strong chalybeate taste. Hitherto no springs of any consequence 

 have been discovered on the hill higher up ; but search is being 

 made for them. The principal fossils (shells) found about the summit 

 of the hill are Belemnites, Cardiums, Echini, and Pectens ; also 

 Turrilites, one or two specimens being in Capt. Urmston's collection 

 which he has formed at Lahore. 



This portion of the hill would therefore seem to belong to the 

 " Upper Chalk." 



On the very lowermost portion of the southern face, I have found a 

 few specimens of a Pecten resembling the Pecten Jacobceus. The next 

 portion of this rangef is composed of sandstone hills, which are disposed 

 in parallel ridges running from north to south. The highest ridge is 

 about the centre of this portion of the range, the ridges on each side 

 sloping off, on one side, towards Shaikh Boodeen, and on the other to- 

 wards the Indus. From these hills, I have obtained portions of heads, 

 teeth, tusks, vertebrae, and limbs of Mammalian animals. Amongst 

 these, I may mention the head and teeth of the Mammoth and other 

 species of Elephant. I have forwarded a number of these to the 

 Lahore Exhibition ; and as they are afterwards to be made over to 

 Captain Stubbs, Offg. Sec, Punjaub Auxiliary Committee of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, I don't wish to make any special reference to 

 any of them, until I know how far I have been correct in naming 

 them. This terminal portion of the Batannee hills would, (on account 

 of the occurrence in them of fossil species of the Elephant seem to 

 belong to the Tertiary formation. 



I don't know anything about the Khattuck hills. All I know of the 

 Sooliman hills, is that the Wuzeeres find quantities of lignite and 

 pyrites in them. 



The Bunnoo Valley appears to be composed of modern alluvium. I 

 have observed several vertical sections of the soil — some of them beino- 

 from 20 to 40 feet in depth. In all cases, the sections have been 

 formed of alternate layers of sand and conglomerate ; most of the stones 



# The northern side. 

 t Batannee. 



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