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have been supposed of triassic age, for which, however, there seems little more 
than a conjecture on the part of Dr. Waagen, as the fossils, when the beds contain 
any, are mostly very obscure. Other beds show a tangled mass of fucoids on the 
surfaces. These limestones are largely distorted, forming at first a com 2 fiex 
synclinal curve crossed by the throat of the Batungi gorge. Before leaving this 
narrow p>art of the gorge and turning eastwards towards Bagnotur, the road crosses 
a small hollow in the limestone hills north of the synclinal arrangement of the 
beds. In the hollow and on the sIojjgs on the oj^posite side of the Kad some 
small dogas or field teiTaces show the wmsto of dark shaly rocks, so that possibly 
some fragment of Spiti shales may here occur, to mark a boundary. Beyond 
this hollow and until the road has curved eastward, the dark limestones become 
more like the lowest of the nummulitic ones; they contain disseminated and 
nodular 2 >yrites and a thin band or bands of very dark coloured ferruginous clay 
with rounded quartz grains and spangles of mica, but no fossils could be 
detected. Just at the turn some broken and detached portions of what may 
once have been a more continuous layer of dark ferruginous oolitic hematite 
clay is enclosed among the limestone beds. It has slight resemblances to the 
golden oolite of the Salt-range and Kach, but is not identical with that rock. 
A little way beyond it the limestone, if it has any general dip, slopes southerly, 
and the first distinct traces of nummulitic fossils ajijocar in foraminiferous forms 
distinguishable with a good lens, amongst them the little organisms referred to 
in a former paper (Vol. X, p. 114), and tiny Botalina-like forms, as well as 
little nummulites, most of which might escape observation with unassisted eyes. 
At Bagnotur one has descended some 3,230 feet (aneroid) from Kalabagh, 
within a distance of five miles by the road (much less in a straight line), and 
just before reaching the bungalow or rest-house, the Attock slates again 
apjiear, occupying, beneath enormous masses of debris, the lower part of this 
valley and that of the river Dore coming from the eastward, which here unite. 
The slates continue in this j)osition, chiefly on the south side of the Dore valley, 
uniting eastward with the main mass of the Mianjani exposure, so that the lime¬ 
stones just now mentioned form a tongue stretching in the direction stated from 
those occujiying much of the northerly jJarts of the lower Hazai’a hills. As it 
is the nummulitic part of these limestones which occurs in junction with the 
slates and not one of the older groufis, it may bo jn-esumed the contact here 
again is effected by a fault. 
Following the Abbottabad road from Bagnotur downwards to the bridge 
over the Dore, G70 foot below the bungalow, another a^ijiarently faulted junction 
with the limestones is crossed before reaching the lowest pioint. These lime¬ 
stones di]D north-westward, are strong-bedded, comp)act, and of dark-grey colour, 
containing small fragmentary fossils, amongst which I observed the basal portion 
of a shark-like fish tooth. They are sometimes semi-oolitic, and sometimes 
contain knots or blebs of carbonate of lime, the whole assemblage having the 
aspect of the supjjosed triassic limestone of those liills. 
Where the Dore bridge sj)ans the chasm below this ^lomt, similar liinestone.s 
dip at high angles to the eastward, and I’ising from the bridge high over the 
northerly channel of the stream, they are seen to include a 10-foot band of 
