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284. I shall now mention the different places where this sandstone 

 has been observed, adding any other particulars which appear to require 

 it. At Bhumowree, it is seen in the river bed, dipping N. E., at an 

 angle of about 30°; but it has here scarcely any development, and 

 nothing is to be learned regarding it but the above fact. At the Chilkein 

 defile, we have more access to it. It there forms very extensive strata, 

 chiefly of the red clay type, between Chilkee and Dhikoolee. In the bed 

 of the Cosillah, occasionally rounded stones are contained imbedded. 

 The strata appeared almost horizontal, or at least very slightly inclined. 

 At Dhikoolee, the conglomerate character is perfect, the basis being still 

 the red clay, but sometimes indurated in a high degree. The strata here 

 dip to the North. They are covered by a deposit of loose rounded 

 stones. From this point, the rock is concealed till we reach Chookoom, 

 and there we find a greenish grey sandstone with mica dipping S. W. 

 It is covered by a loose shattered rock of various bright colours, indi- 

 cative as I have observed elsewhere, of this formation ; beyond this point, 

 that is above it, I have not met with it. 



285. Specimens brought from Kaloo Shaeede's tomb, at the outlet 

 of the Ramgunga, belong to this sandstone. They were of the grey 

 type, with conglomerate structure. At Hurdwar, it may be studied to 

 great advantage, and all its characteristics examined on the Beemghora 

 Pass, where the construction of a beautiful road, by order of Govern- 

 ment, has given two admirable sections of these strata. They are here 

 mostly of the sandstone type, neither the red clay or the conglomerate 

 being common. On the opposite side of the river, however, Chundee 

 Puhar is almost entirely composed of these types. A singular circum- 

 stance is the opposite dip of the strata observable at these two places. 

 At the latter, they dip on the Hurdwar side S. 35° W., at an inclina- 

 tion of about 30° ; while on the other the dip is the N. E., the inclina- 

 tion much the same. 



286. This formation has also been examined in the Kheree Pass, 

 leading from the Dhera Doon into the plains. In this quarter, the dip is 

 very regularly to the N. E., or to some point between N. and E. The 

 first strata observable, and which may be supposed uppermost, is 

 the red clay that lies on a stratum of red conglomerate. The Pass is 

 cut through this latter, and a good section of it obtained. The stones 

 are most commonly quartz rock, more or less coloured ; pieces of granite 



