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13. Marly limestone, deep blue in colour, cherty in appearance and weather- 

 ing rugose ; it is compact and contains no fossils, 15 ft. 



14. A portion of 13, in a brecciated state, 2 ft. 



15. Same as 13, 12 ft. 



16. Limestone similar to No. 2, 2 ft. 



17. Foraminiferous limestone, similar to No. 3, 8 inches 



This limestone contains many small yellow rounded bodies, mixed with the 



Foraminiferce and appearing to have no organisation. They are perhaps excre- 

 tions of mollusks. Also large patches of white, dotted, chalky, limestone 

 which are, I believe, the remains of decomposed fossils of considerable size. 



18. Argillaceous, pale grey, nearly white limestone. It gets coarse to- 

 wards the top of the bed, and the uppermost layer is brecciated, ... 10 ft. 



19. Indurated clay, 1ft. 



20. Limestone varying in colour, being white, yellow, flesh-coloured, grey 

 or pale lustreless blue. It is very argillaceous, occasionally sandy. The debris 

 of fossils mostly encrinite-stems, 10 ft. 



21. Calcareous brown sandstone ; no fossils, , 4 ft. 



22. Shales, hard and without fossils. These shales are in places, fine, 

 silty and foliated ; in other places sandy, coarse and thicker bedded, 10 ft. 



23. Sandstone like 21, 5 ft. 



24. Shales like 22, 10 ft. 



25. A repetition of the beds 22, 23 and 24 ; but the materials are generally 

 coarser, the shales never being fine and thin-bedded, but rough and thick- 

 bedded ; and the sandstone contains so much lime that it passes In some 

 places into a very arenaceous limestone. It contains but little of the debris of 

 fossils, but shows some flat impressions like those of large flat Algce. These 

 impressions are, however, ill-defined and could not be identified, ... 25 ft. 



26. Pale but bright blue limestone ; very argillaceous and interbedded with 

 thin films of yellow silt, 10 ft. 



27. A second repetition of the beds 22, 23 and 24. A few shells, but no 

 imprints of algae. It becomes gradually a coarse sandy limestone, and at 

 the top of the bed it is an argillaceous and arenaceous limestone, pale blue or 

 rather French-grey, weathering rugose like frosted glass and containing 

 a very few fragments of shells only, 25 ft. 



These three beds, 25, 26 and 27, seem to resist the influence of exposure better 

 than the rocks above and below them, and they form at their outcrop a well 

 defined ribbon ; this, owing to the trifling angle of the dip, appears on the 

 hill-side as a cliff which faces the city of Islamabad a little more than half 

 way up the hill. These beds are slightly wavy along the strike, as if they 

 had been pressed laterally. These undulations occasion trifling discrepancies 

 in the dips taken in different parts of the hill. Along the line of our section, 

 the cliff formed by the beds 25, 26 and 27 has a strike N. N. W— S. S. E. and 

 a dip E. N. E. 15°. 



