04 I'TGEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY 



size of a large bean : It occurred stratified, and, though the strata were 

 not very distinct, the stratiform structure was sufficiently obvious. In 

 dip and inclination it agreed with the other rocks seen. The whole sur- 

 face of the country is covered with detached masses of this rock, and very 

 frequently immense isolated blocks, of several yards in diameter, were 

 seen topping the hills, and these, in many situations, were piled upon 

 one another in a very fantastic manner. In the neighbourhood of camp 

 was a group of conical hills, higher than the rest : these were formed of a 

 micaceous clay slate. 



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r Proceeding onward to Ja?tow«, in the Udai/apur district, the country 

 becomes more open, and plains of considerable extent are seen. There 

 were still, however, numerous small rounded hills, while others assumed 

 a conical form and others were ridge-shaped. The preponderating rocks 

 were mica and clay slates, in which large beds of the white quartz occur- 

 red. Jaitana is six miles distant from Jaridna. 



We now marched to Salumbhar, a walled town of considerable extent, 

 belonging to one of the principal Omrahs of Udayapur, and situated 

 eleven miles N. W. from the last. The mica slate, during this march, 

 passed into gneiss, in which beds of granite, some specimens containing 

 chlorite and hornblende slate were observed. From Jaitana, a range of 

 hills were seen in the distance extending N. W. andS. E. Salumbhar is 

 situated at the base of this range, which is connected with the one which 

 passes the Dhabar. The hills are generally ridge-shaped, and sometimes 

 peaked, and those in the neighbourhood of the town are fortified. 



In the nullah courses a veiy thick bed of kunkur, of a distinct rocky 

 structure, and indistinctly stratified, was observed. The kunkur forma- 

 tion now becomes very abnndant—ii; is differently modified in different 

 v. , situations — 



