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nous sandstones, which strengthened my belief that I was dealing with 

 a group high in the Gondwana series ; and it was, I confess, disconcert- 

 ing when the palseontological evidence was so much at variance with my 

 first conclusions. On the same line of strike are the rocks of Dhaurai, 

 Uchehra, Karkati, Kurabar, and the Murcha Pass lying, broadly speaking, 

 to the north of the village of Pali composed of coarse pebbly sandstones, 

 yellowish, grey, massively bedded, and frequently with oblique lamina- 

 tion. At intervals, purplish fine-grained argillaceous sandstones and 

 brick-red clays, and fine-grained purple sandstones frequently so ferrugi- 

 nous as to become iron ore 1 beds. All these appeared to me to assimilate in 

 character with the Mahadeva group, but here also the palseontological facts 

 were, that at Karkati, in very ferruginous red-brown slightly sandy shale, 

 there were specimens of Equisetaceous stems, Schizoneura ? Sphenopteris 

 polymorpha, Glossopteris communis } Glossopteris cordata, and seeds. From 

 Kurabar, Verlebraria indica,Sc/iizoneura,Sp/ienopteris polymorpha, Glossop- 

 teris communis, Glossopteris damudica j and from the Murcha Pass in very 

 ferruginous micaceous sandy shale, near Ganjra, Glossopteris communis. 

 From Parsora, which is still farther to the north, in extremely fine- 

 grained dark-red ferruginous shales, associated with 



Fossils at Parsora. 



sandstones having altogether Mahadeva features, 

 Daneopsis liughesi, Thinnfeldia (comp.) odontopteroides, Asplenium whit- 

 byense, and Noggerathiopsis hislopi, were identified by Dr. Feistmantel, and 

 classed by him as Lower rather than Upper Gondwana forms. Here we 

 have fossils distinctly newer than those of the J ohilla and in the vicinity 

 of Pali, but they are associated with rocks whose features are quite iden- 

 tical with those of the latter localities, and we shall have to determine at 

 some future time what value this circumstance bears. 



On the outskirt of the Umaria field at Chatan, Verlebraria indica and 

 Glossopteris angustifolia were obtained in buff shale intermixed with 



1 Two analyses of ferruginous argillaceous sandstones from the Johilla river showed — 



No. 1. No. 2. 



Ferric oxide 4F14 36-00 



Loss on ignition ...... 6'05 8 00 



Ignited insoluble residue * . . 52 - 80 52-80 



Undetermined 321 3-20 



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