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hood of Nainee Tal, “ identical with those which accompany the Eocene 
Nummulitic formation,” and those rocks at Nainee Tal are considered 
by Mr. Medlicott, to be the true representatives of the Krol beds ; 
but independently of this, the conclusion was arrived at from observ- 
ations in the salt range, and in the Himalayas of Huzra andPoonch. 
There is a great similarity in the section about Murree and north 
of Kotlee in the Kashmir territory, to that at Subathoo. Three or 
four miles north of Kotlee there is a stony rib of hard limestone, 
with an E. S. E. direction ; on both sides of this are brown clays 
and lumpy earthy limestone of the same character as the Subathoo 
rocks, succeeded by a great thickness of red clays and hard lime- 
stones : in fact, the series called above the upper Nummulitic. These 
rocks are noticed by Mr. Schlagintweit, “ to the south of Kashmir a 
zone of Nummulitic marls and of sandstones, of thirty-nine to fifty 
miles broad, borders the Himalaya to wards "the plains of India.”* 
The relations of this series to the massive limestone ridge are pre- 
cisely the same as with the Krol limestone ; the ridge at Dundelee 
being altogether analogous to the rib thrust through the Nummulitic 
strata at Diliur on the Sutlej : the resemblance lithologically is 
also perfect. Again, Murree stands on a mountain of red clays and 
sandstones ; the Mooehipora ridge to the N. and N. W. of it is of 
the hard limestone, and along the junction Nummulitic rocks, iden- 
tical with those at Subathoo, are easily traceable, although not well 
developed. In this hard sub-crystalline, and generally unfossiliferous 
limestone of the Mooehipora ridge, Nummulites have been found, 
as already noticed by Dr. Fleming, (Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, 
1853, p. 200). On passing to the salt range, this Subathoo series 
was found to be entirely wanting, although so largely developed to 
the north. In the salt range, the thick soft sandstones and varie- 
gated clays of the Siwalik formation rest directly on the clear Num- 
mulitic limestones, as noticed by Dr. Fleming ;f the very junction 
layers containing only rolled Nummulites. But there is nothing, at 
least in the east of the range, to represent the Subathoo group. 
There is nothing either to suggest the idea that these can be assi- 
milated to the salt range Nummulitic rocks ; on the contrary all 
* Report No. 2, 1856, J. A. S. B. Vol. XXV. p. 118. 
t Jouru, As, Soe. Bengal, Vol. XXII. p. 229, &e. 
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