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It follows, therefore, that the sections which I shall now describe 

 will be more or less artificially selected ones. They will not be 

 limited in the same way that the actual traverses over the ground 

 were limited by accidents of time and opportunity, but they will in 

 many cases embody results of two, three, or more separate traverses, 

 which may have been undertaken consecutively or at broken periods 

 of time. By this means much space and weary confusing details will 

 be saved. 



Sections round about Hureepoor, 



Within a day's march of Hureepoor we can examine several'sam- 

 ple sections in the slate formation. We can visit the hills to the 

 south, east, or north-west, and traverse large areas of slate without 

 coming upon anything higher than Infra-Trias. We will first of all 

 examine the low hills to the south-east of Hureepoor, after having 

 crossed over the flat plain of recent gravel and alluvium that stretches 

 between these places. 



Near Bandee Sher Khan we reach the first of the little bare 

 strike ridges made up of slates. From that point across the hills 

 to the south up to the edge of the Nummulitic zone the slates are set 

 at steep angles with cleavage and bedding generally coinciding, 

 but not always, as can be seen by the parallelism of the former 

 with the interbedded limestones. The special feature about the 

 slate formation in this part of the country is these limestone bands 

 which seem to be interbedded with the slates. On the map several 

 of them are shewn, though the thickness there represented is con- 

 siderably in excess of their real thickness. Throughout this area 

 we may remark the very steady strike of the slates. This is mani- 

 fest in several ways, viz. y (1) by the cleavage andi bedding of the 

 slates, (2) by the connected chains of little hills which mark out- 

 crops of the harder bands of more quartzose material in the slates, 

 (3) D y the interbedded limestone bands which can be seen capping 

 the crest of one little hill after another, especially in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Peer Kot. With this regularity of strike there is a 



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