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In the neighbourhood of Sasun the rocks are much concealed by alluvium and laterite, 
and the exact position of the eastern boundary is from this cause somewhat uncertain. Both 
to the north and south of Sasun short sections of sandstones and shales are seen. Some of the 
beds of the former are tolerably thick, and one, a bluish-grey fine-grained rock, has furnished 
both building stone and material for vats used in lac manufacture. So far as it is seen, the 
boundary appears to be quite natural, following the irregular edges of the basin of deposit. 
West from Sasun, and on both sides of the Ebe, laterite conceals the Talckirs to a very con¬ 
siderable extent; though in this particular section of the country it is not abundant on 
the older rocks. There is sometimes, for several miles together, a most remarkable coincidence 
between the Talcbir-gneiss boundary and the edge of the terrace-like spreads of laterite. 
So much is this in some places the case, that one can follow the boundary with the eye 
from a distance by means of the raised banks of laterite which terminate abruptly at the 
junction of Talchirs and gneiss. Of the cause of this I am at present unable to oiler even 
a plausible explanation, and must therefore confine myself to the simple record of the fact. 
The greater part of the bed of the Ebe, where it traverses these rocks, is one unbroken 
waste of sand ; but there is a short section of sandstones and shales, with a dip of 8° -15“ to 
north-north-east, at the bend near Mangalpur. Here, too, in the bed of the channel, there is 
a boulder bed, tho boulders in which are not very numerous nor of large size, but they can be 
seen sticking out of the silt here and there underneath the clear waters of the river. 
In the country to the west of the Ebe so complete is the covering of laterite, that 
exposed outcrops of Talchir rocks are only very occasionally met with. In the eastern 
branch of the Kadam river at Gorgoda and Bodopali, and in the western at Binlci and Bolunda, 
there are short sections, and the existence of a spur of metamorphic rocks running into the 
main Talchir area is rendered vipparent. Half a mile north of Binki there are seen, in the 
high ground, shales and thin sandstones with a dip of 30° to north-east which has been 
caused by some very local disturbance. 
At Eemra (Remda of map) there is an inlier of metamorphic rocks whose boundaries 
are much concealed by laterite. From this westwards, the Barakars, which first appear over- 
lying the Talchirs at Telunpali, gradually lap over, and before Borkliol is reached all traces 
of Talchirs at the southern boundary have disappeared. This total disappearance is, howevei, 
probably not exclusively attributable to overlap, as the boundary appears to be a faulted 
one, and a portion of the originally existing Talchirs may have been cut off. In the stream 
west of Dagarmunda the Talchirs for a short distance dip away from the gneiss at an angle 
of 60°. 
A small outlier from this area of Talchirs exists in the valley of the Ebe near the vil¬ 
lages of Taldi and Terda. The rocks seen are shales and sandstone. 
This area covers something under one square mile, and was in all probability, judging by 
the character of the surrounding country, originally, as it is now, quite detached from the 
main mass. 
Kiearama—Putra'pali. —Some eight miles to the north of the strip of Talchirs men¬ 
tioned above, a second spur-Hko eastern prolongation of the field crosses the bed of the Ebe. 
Although Barakare are the principal rocks seen, indications of underlying Talchirs are not 
wauting at the margins. The first of these is at Kirarama. The principal rock is a boulder 
bed which is exposed at the foot of some small laterite hills to the east of the village. The 
boulders consist of jasper-conglomerate, quartzite, &c., all of quite foreign origin. The 
boundary here is not improbably natural, the beds appearing to rest against hornblendic 
gneiss, a section of which is seen in the bed of the river. To the south and west the boun¬ 
dary is much concealed by laterite. 
