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French grey. There is much in these strata to remind one of the starry- 

 trachyte or Soolimanite of the Tukt-i-Suliman, but the starry arrangement 

 of elongated crystals of albite is never perfectly seen. 

 A layer of amygdaloid covers in the trachyte. 



From Pandrettan to Panchhooka, we have been examining the beds 

 of the southern spur of the Zebanvvan. The W. N. W. spur may be 

 considered to end or rather to begin over Pandrettan, and from thence 

 eastwards we cross the digitations of the southern spur. A glance at 

 the horizontal section (Map B) will render any further explanation 

 unnecessary. 



Here ends our section through Hurri Parbut, the Tukt-i-Suliman 

 and the W. N. W. portion of the Zebanwan. 



21. We will now examine the south-south-eastern flank of the 

 Zebanwan, following a section from near Panchhooka towards 

 the E. N. E. (See Map B.) (Section III. of General Map or 

 Map A.) 



We meet first a long slender spur proceeding from the main range 

 of the Zebanwan to the S. S. E., and as this spur is very interesting, 

 I have called it the Zeeawan spur from the name of a village situated 

 close to its extremity. fSect. A, B and C). 



* The Zeeawan spur is composed, high up the hill, of the same 

 basalt, amygdaloid and greenstone which we have seen in the preced- 

 ing spur, but towards its end it is made up of enormously thick beds 

 of volcanic agglomerate. This agglomerate is composed. of a cement 

 having the shining appearance of a slag, but not in its vesicular arrange- 

 ment. It contains lapilli of nearly all the rocks which we have seen 

 before, viz. greenstone, basalt, amygdaloid, slate of various sorts, and 

 pieces of both felspathic and augitic ash. These lapilli are quite 

 angular and crammed together so close that in some places the cement 

 can hardly be seen. This cement appears to have at first coated the 

 fragments with a thin layer of a dark shining paste, and then glued 

 them together with a coarser material ; or it is very possible that this 

 coating is a superficial melting of the lapilli, and that the cement is 

 a lava. However this may be, this agglomerate forms the greater 

 portion of the spur. A confused stratification is discernible, dipping 

 to the E. S. E. at a higher angle, and cut at right angles by well 

 marked joints ; thus huge blocks are separated from the mass and 



