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can judge, and it appears to correspond with the hunter sand-stein of Wer- 

 ner, and, consequently, with the new red mwc?-5ifo?ie of England; the same 

 hills are composed of the same sand-stone, opposite to Nagound, Lohar- 

 gaon, Tigra, and Ghysahad, and there can be no doubt that the whole is 

 a mass of the same kind of sand-stone, varying, perhaps, in appearance, 

 but not in character ; and it would be interesting to examine whether 

 there are any traces of an oolitic formation on their summits. 



After proceeding about three miles into the valley, I came upon the 

 ridge of the Kymur range of hills, which here begins to break, and soon 

 disappears below the surface ; in this part it is composed of silicious grit- 

 stone, which evidently passes under the sandstone of the Bandair hills, 

 but to the south-west of this point, near Hirapur, the rock becomes more 

 compact, and still further west, opposite Gugri, it is intermixed with 

 schistose limestone, which contains mica, and, perhaps, green talc. 



Between this range and Jehelpur, is a broad valley, covered by a 

 thick stratum of aZ/i<ymm, which required much more minute investiga- 

 tion than my hurried route enabled me to bestow. 



The town of Jehelpur is situated at the foot of a range granite hills, 

 which, perhaps, might be termed syenitic granite, as its composition is flesh- 

 coloured felspar, smoky quartz, a little black mica, and much horn-hlende. 

 I have traced it for thirty miles, in which space it dips below, and rises 

 above the surface several times, and there the rock becomes well defined 

 granite, and is particularized by its tendency to exhibit logging-stones : it 

 is much subject to decomposition, from the quantity of felspar it contains. 



Every formation subordinate to granite is to be found in this neigh- 

 bourhood. Gneiss, containing hornhlende, and partially decomposed, so 



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