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stratified, dipping 10° N. W., the angle of inclination being 44°. It 

 gradually passes into a most perfect micaceous sandstone, which is 

 found occasionally to contain small nodules of greenish grey clay. 

 The transition is observed to a great advantage, as the whole of the 

 strata are exposed, nor have I seen in any part of the mountains an ap- 

 pearance that more interested me. 



213. A little below this, we descend to the Balleea Nuddie, where the 

 sandstone is again found, and resting on it various coloured and shat- 

 tered rocks, described in Art. 204. In the bed of the Nullah, the frag- 

 ments are, some limestone, some clay slate of a hardness approaching 

 to that of jasper, but the greater part quartz, more or less impure. 

 Near the bridge may be seen blocks of the blackish amorphous 

 rock before noticed, and which in one solitary instance has been observ- 

 ed to have a partially cavernous structure ; some of the cavities being 

 filled with a zeolite mineral, (Kouphone spar.) This rock certainly appears 

 to pass into the purple argillaceous schist, but as so often remarked, 

 access is wanting to the junction of the rocks in order to establish this 

 fact with certainty. 



214. In this vicinity, (a little below the Buleea Nuddie,) I picked up 

 fragments of a perfect greenstone of a large grain, very similar in 

 fact to that of a granite. The ingredients were compact felspar and 

 quartz. I have never found any thing like this rock anywhere else, nor 

 have I been able to trace it to its original site. Sandstone, irregularly 

 mixed with conglomerate, then continues to Bhumouree, where also 

 it is to be seen, (in the bed of the Nullah,) dipping to the North at an 

 angle of about 25°. Bhumouree is situated at the foot of the hills, in 

 the Bhabur or elevated part of the Teraee. 



215. I must now return to a route, the details of which ought to 

 have been given before the last two, but the omission is not one of any 



of the gneiss to very near the summit of the — — — Pass, below 

 which it is replaced by chloritic schist : fragments of hornblendic schist 

 being also very common. The former continues to near Pokree, occa- 

 sionally giving place to talcose schist, occasionally to talcose quartz rock. 

 Near some of the old galleries of the copper mines worked here, are 

 beautiful specimens of an emerald green straight laminar slate with high 



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