1854. 



Notes on the Topography of Murree. 



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Fig. 



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Section made by a new road. — A new road, which, for the con- 

 venience of horse and foot passengers, is being cut along the face 

 of the hill, reveals each individual stratum ; and the following dia- 

 gram, taken during a walk along it, will show the succession of these 

 in a distance of half a mile. 

 2. 



Section 1. Blue sandstone. 

 2 and 3. Ked clayey sandstone with green 

 marl, the strata having different dips. 



4. Red clayey sandstone without green marl. 



5. Boulders of grey sandstone with stalactites 

 in their interspaces. 



6. Red argillaceous mould. 



7. Grey sandstone with nodules of oxide of 

 iron. 



8. Ditto ditto without iron. 



9. Boulders of grey sandstone. 



10. Ditto of red sandstone with organic 

 remains (shells). 



11. Reddish sandstone containing streaks of 

 carbonate of lime. 



12. Argillaceous soil on red nodulated ferru- 

 ginous rock of various consistence, with a few 

 nodules of green marl and kunkur. 



13. Brecciated clayey ferruginous stone with 

 organic remains. 



14. Red argillaceous loam. 



15. Grey ditto ditto on soft grey sandstone. 

 Remarks on Section. — The above diagram is 



intended to represent the succession of vertical 

 strata exposed during the formation of the 

 narrow road to which allusion has just been 

 made ; the lower extremity (at 1,) repre- 

 senting the northern end of the road and the 

 upper end (at 15,) the southern — the whole 

 space therein comprised including one of those 



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