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Records of the Geological Survey of India, 
[vol. VII, 
of which have not as yet been worked out. They consist of bright red and purple clays, 
harder red earthy beds, hard blue and red-striped sandstones, variegated greenish and blackish 
purple earthy beds, and a mass of liver-colored and greenish clay or shale alternating with 
bands of white and gray finely crystalline gypsum and limestone. They extend for more 
than a mile down the valley of the Haro river, and at first sight seem allied to the gypseous 
rocks of the Subathu gi'oup, but it is difficult to understand how these could have come into 
such a position except by enormous faulting. It is perhaps possible that these rocks may 
belong to some of those “ below the Trias ” of Sir Ban mountain near Abbottabad (see 
Memoirs of Geological Survey, Vol. IX, p. 335), but until a closer acquaintance with the 
structure of the ground has been obtained, it is hardly safe to assign them to any particular 
stage. Their beds exhibit at least one anticlinal curve, and if normally placed, considering 
the undulating character of the rocks along the Abbottabad road high above, they ought to 
occupy a position very far down in the series. They are evidently the rocks referred to in 
Dr. Verchere’s paper to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XXXV, as “ Geyserian." 
Prom the foregoing descriptions and Dr. Waagen’s paper, it will be seen that the Chumbi 
peak over Khairagali and the Abbottabad road, expose beside the nummnlitic rocks two 
of the secondary formations. Secondary rocks are also known to occur among the long 
spurs or ridges from this higher region, passing northwards of Rawul Pindi; hence the 
conclusion may bo arrived at that a central mass of these rocks exists within the Murchpuri 
mountains. In none of the situations mentioned however are their exposures sufficiently 
simple to admit of strong assertions regarding their conformity or otherwise, but it is very 
probable from observations made in Hazara (Memoir's, Geological Survey, Vol. IX, art. 3) that 
the jnrassic beds discordantly overlie the triassic series, while both of these and the nunr- 
mulitic beds also are most likely quite unconformable to the Attock slates. 
The chief interest connected with the rocks of the whole district is the identity of some 
of them and their fossils with the central Himalayan series examined by Dr. Stoliczka in 
Spiti, &c.; also the resemblance between certain of the limestones and those of the Krol group 
pointed out by Mr. Medlicott, (Memoirs, Geological Survey, India, Vol. V, part 1, and Vol. Ill, 
part 2) as well as the connexion between the outer tertiary rocks hero and the Sub-Himalayan 
series of the latter author. 
Mubeee, 1 A. B. WYNNE. 
October 1873. j 
DONATIONS TO MUSEUM, 
Six slabs of flexible sandstone.—C ol. McMahon. 
From the Portugese Commission at the Vienna Exhibition. 
Galena ... ... 
... 
... loc P 
Argentiferous galena 
... „ 
Antimony 
... 
... Dist. Porto. 
Tinstone 
... 
... Bragancia. 
Tin from ditto 
. .. 
... ,, 
Massive iron pyrites 
... San Domingo. 
Natural asphalt in clay 
... loc? 
Lava 
... 
From one of the Colonial possessions 
