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and in the evening I shall probably see that of Deoree. The quartz 

 is intimately mixed with felspar, which is sometimes found in separate 

 clay slate, exactly resembling in some specimens that of Kerajah last 

 year. 



Dooroog, 22d February. — Alternation of black soil and of pisiform 

 iron ore, reminding me of that in the neighbourhood of Sheelapie- 

 ly. The face of the country as bare and destitute of trees as in the 

 neighbourhood of Sholapoor. In the bed of the Shiwer nuddee, a red- 

 dish clay slate, the bed was composed of siliceous sand, and the banks 

 of brown argillo- calcareous soil. In my vicinity are numerous exca- 

 vations of considerable dimensions for the purpose of making tanks, 

 the bottom about 50 or 60 feet below the surface ; in one, S. E. 

 of the town, is a thick layer of limestone of a reddish color, which at first 

 appears to be a kind of breccia or pudding stone, but on narrow in- 

 spection, it is evident, that the whole consists of a thick bed of oyster 

 shells which have been in some cases completely petrified, and changed 

 into a compact limestone ; and in others on fracture, conchoidal laminae 

 are very distinct. Perhaps it will be difficult to convince some persons 

 that these are really petrified oyster shells, but I have not the slightest 

 doubt, that an experienced geologist will at once admit of the fact. 

 It remains to be ascertained, whether the rock has a bituminous or 

 ammoniacal smell before the blow- pipe ; they appear to differ very little 

 from the shells at Miaglah Condee, except that in this instance they 

 are entire, whereas at the former place, they are broken ; here also they 

 appear to have been compressed. The bed extends beneath the dilu- 

 vial soil as far as the bed of the river, where there are a few scattered 

 blocks. 



Fyepoor, 2Zd February. — In the bed of the Karoo nuddee, I 

 observed the shells, and in one bank, in particular on the right bank 

 of the river, they were particularly distinct, owing to the polish 

 which the stone had received from the friction of running water. 

 The soil alternated from the red or decomposing pisiform iron ore to 

 that of the clay slate and sand. 



Byepoor, 28lh February. — On the 24th I visited the Karoo nud- 

 dee, about 4 miles S. W. of Ryepoor. The bed of the river was 

 principally formed of the shelly slate limestone, but the masses 

 did not present the same distinct outline which I observed further 



