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we Ji^rn frfirn |he jrea I work of Sir R. Muscimol* and M, m Ybhxvtl p in the EW£ mmiio- 

 lain*, Kliick rinses of &trala Arc in lomc pUcs* arcrEurncdj and, on Ehc ilanks or the latter 

 inoonlaim, tlw order of superposition is lliui isemeliirtc* inverted. But mrh caw rati not 

 juiiifif in *u uprising 1 thai in a similar roimil^on on « transcendent scale the Ilimntnyai 

 origiiiflJcd. Thr raeUmor|due theory might get rid of I he iliiKtulJy if it rouid be *hewn 

 I hut the ipteigt and other rock* Teiting on the new rod sandstone, were really more modern 

 ledinicnlarf nxkw f (1) Unlit wn pOMcii further Lin;hi we fltiti jueiiHcrl in considering that the 

 rttcarcJic* and conclusions of Captain IIxubut tend Lo pwo tiin r. the passage, of goths i'^o 

 (franita or the r«Ttrie m iiy be determined ihninJy hy ihe variable proporl ions of mica and the 

 condition* of rry*|iillhalion from n ournvnon shite of fluidify or roridily. A pnrfiuu of the 

 Ilimnfayn* has mw recently been examined by Dr. M.-lrCeuxixd, ond he dedans positirdv 

 Lli Hie [g: f 41 n i I c I* dlrnliltui] , thr strain being nearlv vertical ami n |P[>curir^ fo be comrjoded 

 of nodules around which cullCclitrir Layers arc wrapped. He tlntc* ako that th« rjmit.t res ft 

 on ftut tfrttntiti in. conformable timta, mid that I be two rocki pnss in^en^hly into cadi of Iter (2), 

 The metdiinorphie theory start- on ;i kni- oJ' f;an[ mid m dcmnEi^frnbly (rein up- to a ten- 

 ia in limit. But when applied |o m ruin la in mntw* of enormous thick nest we leave 

 timL limit far lichiftd. The conversion of the Ilimaiar$fiit from #aft acqimnnlary itrto 

 h-f y»tpi!li in- m.iLIrr iMiimil In 1 rvplaiinil 1.% 1 1 1 ■ ■ pltttfMlIc iotion of ;; ■ m i I ■ .. M Lrc>u u i^ui 

 rocLs, even where It ha* pervaded them to the thiefcnei* of a fuw hundred yard*. If the 

 Himalaya* were mt-lnniorphutfcd r the proce&t irnmt hate hern Ji il'.'ivnt f ni pi atonic, 

 influences must have been in operation of for greater poteorv, mid having in* some resjicets 

 B ftlfTerCTtt m®de af action. There is an iitisrit talari or v Wiitil af dtTinih l ]r-- about the mcla- 

 niorpbic theory even when expounder! by it* great advocate At.. Lvkll. If (lie iarrrcdientg of 

 gncm } were originally arranged as wo Jiwd tuera nl pr^eiil^ Ihtui it, nuly difT^n from the 

 Worrier j Lin llieorv in Buh^lttutinQf a poeterionr for an aboriginal consolidation , and plaee* 

 f»TH'i*a cm I Fie fcunr ft^liiifj wt[Ji any of Mir flecondnvy ov (r-rCinry PaTiilstrjarH (hat hrtrc es- 

 soined a slony tcitnre ftince fhey were deposited from water. On I be other linnrl if U lakes 

 a boidrr grasp of the dlffiruHy ntid a^eriA that the whole structure or the rock, the regular 

 form of ic-i trytnU., and the ^eparaCion of thow of difTuronE sp^k^ into alternate Laminaiaj 

 ire diir to the mass hmitift been melled into a viscid *iate el ml subjeeEi-d to ery*t si ligation 

 rfe f it apne«r? to e&iiui so rinse to rlirrjct plutoiiir Trirmalian that il not na^ 1 la ^e 



inhere room i* to be found for a vast mclamorpliie laboratory on the courinc^ of the latter, 

 Itt ejdvoejitr!* have prfihably seen and shrank from the diPTienlly af dellniiafj the conditions 



fl) Dr, Rcmnfl ,^^fi, n l« I he 1]iir-l{Eir« nt j|W |hi« P W frvfv*iri *|r»li|-1rrt r^tU incluAinft llie fP^Mrj *L [ffl WiJ+i. 

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(Ij Sf. CiiLM* IntCTihsti'lli gnrit* in tht 4ifl(rlrt *f Ttnniatlly in Strmlhum India 11 iriirH;* abvra IS*inff*ri.' 

 *ti rimnrLfrJity C«IMn«||m aril 111 prrfrrtfg Mtrai ifi* d Miilt«r , finmEng lw1T dvlftctifil htHl Mir PlfUm* 



Cittlta Wiv iL' Kin n-f hi liirli Jff al lq Aii^tei ahaul -S5u la Nib SW. ( B«1£WIT««II £V<.liwJ-flA Janrirel cf StieHtt , 

 **L X + p P I36J. Olfttr prritiri tn tin (tcut&flv of fndta mfaltcn III* oetnrrrarir of frnidEt to mtflr i»!ltc*i wilfci 

 a rin4tar ■p^rvitq^. irrriPQiPt in &ti w&rk on CenLmt jt$t* ArUn^n iM« rrmirk*FiJ*« ■lm&lnr& if IIm (jinnilp 

 ■■jrrDTiniliii^ Lli* rami »f tbc Mt*u MityvBM h lirgr (rain ^4 grins E« ft ■ r^wlarly ■Lrtlifl*J 1 *. 



