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course of a mile, however, it falls to a level of scarcely more than 

 200 feet above the sea. On this slope the main portion of the city 

 is built. Comparatively high ground extends for some distance 

 south of the city, connecting on the south-east with the lower 

 slopes of the outer hills of Girnar, and appears to be formed 

 throughout of the same limestone. It is impossible to define the 

 limits of the formation under the cultivated land near Junagarh. 

 I found one exposure (at the point marked A on the map, fig. 1) 



Kg-'l. 



qu = Quarries. A = Exposure of limestone near Khalilpur. 

 QK = Quartz-keratophyre. QF = Micropegmatitic quartz-felsite. 



about 3j miles north-west of the city, and about | mile west-south- 

 west of the village of Khalilpur, on the Sonrakhi. This is at an< 

 elevation but little exceeding 150 feet above sea-level. 



In some places the Sonrakhi has cut down to the Deccan Trap- 

 rocks below the limestone, but the junction is obscured by cal- 

 careous tufa, derived partly from the latter and partly from the 

 decomposition of igneous rocks in the area drained by the river. 

 Near the Uparikot, the surface of the trap can scarcely be much 



