JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 

 No. III.— 1866. 



Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains, a geological 

 paper by Albert M. Verchere, Esq., Bengal Medical Service ; with 

 a note on the fossils by M. Edouard de Verneuil, Membre de 

 VAcademie des Sciences, Paris. 



(Continued from page 133.) 

 Leaving with regret the Zeeawan spur, we will continue our 

 examination of the Zebanwan mountain along its southern aspect. 

 (See Map B.) (Section III. on General Map.) 



We first cross a considerable mass of volcanic rocks, well stratified, 

 and which we will not stop to describe, as they are similar to the 

 felspathic ashes, black slates and the amygdaloid seen before. They 

 present, however, a few layers of a coarsely crystalline limestone, 

 without fossils and interbedded with layers of ash ; some of this lime- 

 stone is quite black and remarkably well crystallized in small crystals 

 of jet-black spar. It would be a valuable ornamental marble, if found 

 in some quantity. I have only seen it in thin and small patches, 

 accompanying an amygdaloidal dust-stone of fine texture, but much 

 decayed and nearly as black as the limestone. These patches of black 

 rock are well seen on the slope of the long .spurs which descend 

 towards the S. E., from the highest summits of the Zebanwan. These 

 volcanic rocks dip easterly, and their inclination is not more than 20° 

 to 25°. 



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