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can be no doubt, however, that it is thicker near the ChacJiai and Tons 

 (cascades, and the Bandair hills must be still more so ; it appears to com- 

 prize most of the varieties of Dr. Macculloch's synopses of lowest and 

 some of his superior sand-stones, whilst the general parallelism of its stra- 

 tification to the horizon, and its saliferous nature, well enough identify it 

 with the new red sand-stone of England, which comprises all those beds 

 that lie between lias lime-stone and the coal measures. 



The lias lime-stojie formation is exceedingly curious, for, whilst in other 

 countries it forms mountainous tracts, and occupies extensive portions of 

 the earth's surface, it is here a mere plastering over the surface of red 

 marie or sand-stone, and I should doubt whether it ever attains the thick- 

 ness of a hundred feet. I have not met with it in any other place than on 

 the summit of the second range of hills, and it may there be seen in 

 the low lands, and in the beds of small rivulets, but in thfe large rivers 

 it appears to have been swept away, as their channels are worn down to 

 the subjacent sand-stone, and perhaps, in some cases, to the primitive 

 strata. 



The overlying rocks of the Sugar district appear to be the floetz-trap 

 of Werner ; they are not only the most extensive, but, considered as 

 geological phwnomena; they are the most important in that district, and, 

 perhaps, in India. The prevalence of opinion regarding their origin is 

 now, indeed, inclining to a modified volcanic theory, and as their extent is 

 truly astonishing, I feel persuaded, when their correct outline shall have 

 been ascertained, that the representation alone will be correspondently 

 striking. As far as my observations have extended, I have never been 

 able to reconcile my ideas of it, to the Wernerian theory alone; I have 

 seen it meandering round isolations of sand-stone, and resting against 

 them in a manner which could not have occurred, had its origin been 



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