1867.] the Western Himalaya and Afghan Mountains. 17 



From this fauna it appears therefore that the limestone of Sheikh 

 Bodeen* is equivalent to the Oxfordian formation of England, and that 

 the uppermost beds are contemporary to the English Coral Rag or 

 rather to the Galcaire a Neimaes of the Zena. We shall see presently 

 in the country of the Wuzeerees, beds which are, in all probability, 

 the equivalent of the Coral Rag. Some of the Oolitic shells collected 

 by Dr. Gerard in Spiti are represented in Dr. Royle's Illustrations of 

 the Botany and other branches of the Natural History of the Hima- 

 layan mountains ; the drawings are by T. Sowerby and are remarkably 

 good. The form numbered 17 in Royle's plates and described as an 

 Area or Ctccidhea is found at Sheikh Bodeen ; the Rhynchonellai 20 

 and 21, described as Ter eh rat idee or Atrypce, are common at Sheikh 

 Bodeen ; the two species of Ammonites, figs. 22 and 24, are also found 

 at Sheikh Bodeen, as well as the two species of Belemnites represented 

 figs. 25 and 26 and fig. 27. The fig. 23, called a Delthijris, has also 

 been found at Sheikh Bodeen, I believe, but I do not possess a 

 specimen of it. 



The Rhynchonella represented by Royle and which is common at 

 Sheikh Bodeen, has also been found in Rukshen by Captain Austen. 



The Jurassic limestone of Sheikh Bodeen rests in variegated 

 dolomitic limestone without fossils (?), red marls, gypseous dark marls, 

 and feldspathose white sandstone extremely friable ; and this formation 

 appears identical to the Saliferian formation of the Salt Range. 

 From these lower beds issue a few small springs of brine, and it is, 

 probable that masses of salt exist here and there in the marl, as it 

 does in the Salt Range, but nowhere does the salt crop out, Some 

 beds of massive gypsum occur on the southern side of the hill near 

 its base, but are not extensive. The Oolitic and Saliferian formations 

 conform in all their folds, faults and twistings most perfectly, but 

 there is a slight nonconformity between the Saliferian and Oolitic 

 beds and the Miocene sandstone and conglomerate. The Saliferian and 

 Oolitic formations had been upheaved to some extent before the Miocene 

 began to be deposited, as boulders of gypsum and Oolitic limestone are 

 found in the Miocene conglomerate in company with boulders of 

 volcanic rocks, of nummulitic limestone, of carboniferous limestone, 

 and with rolled Producti brought from the Bilote Range. But the 

 * A few fossils of Sheikh Bodeen are sketched at Plate XI. figs. 2 to 6. 



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