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sharply angular pieces, and recemented by a material of precisely the same general charac¬ 
ter as the mass. These are exactly like similar beds described in the Karnul and Kadapah 
formations. Generally, the lie of these Bheema beds is quite flat, or with a gentle dip to the 
north-west. The different groups noticed above do not appear to be unconformable, but the 
newer overlap the older to a considerable extent. This is the case also with the trappean 
beds which come over and rest upon the Bheema rocks. Where in contact, only slight 
alteration has been produced in the underlying beds by the overflow of the traps; purple 
shales become of a blight red colour, and weather with a soft velvety powdery surface, &c. 
Of the traps themselves, there is only a very limited thickness near the boundary. The 
series is made up of several thin flows of various kinds, and of different degrees of compact¬ 
ness and hardness. The uppermost flow is generally decomposed into a form of lateritic rock. 
Mr. King has at the commencement of the present working season carried on these 
boundaries a little further to the north-east, but was obliged to hurry on to take up the 
examination of the Godavery area to which Mr. Blanford was unable to return. In addition 
to this field work he has also supplied the Director of Revenue Settlements, Madras, with 
notes on the geology of the Cuddapah and Nellore districts. 
Mr. Bruce Foote continued the examination of the similar rocks to the south-west 
joining on to the limits of last year’s exploration. It was hoped that he would have been 
able to complete the country up to the western ghats, but the boundaries proved so much 
more intricate and complicated than was anticipated, that this was impracticable. Mr. 
Foote’s close examination of the country was rewarded towards the end of the season by 
the very interesting and important discovery of the fossilized remains of a j Rhinoceros in 
the regur or hlaek cotton soil. These have since been worked out with great care by Mr. 
Foote, and will be hereafter described. 
Mr. W. L. Willson has continued the examination of the southern portion of the 
Jhansi district, and of Lullutpur to the south, and the native states of Tehree, &o.,to the east. 
Over all this country the same remarkable series of trappean dykes and quartz reefs, already 
noticed as occurring in the adjoining districts, can be seen, running up to the Par sandstone 
scarp south of Gwalior to the north-west, and to the very bases of the Vindhyan and Bijawur 
rocks in the south-east. In no case, however, do these dykes penetrate either of these forma¬ 
tions. They occur, apparently more numerously than elsewhere, from a few miles north-east 
of Jhansi to the Yindhyan scarp on the south-east; their range being chiefly from north-20 0 
west to north-west. There is a tendency to a more easterly strike, as you pass to the north¬ 
east towards the Dessaun river and Nowgong, while along the Dessaun a very few occur, 
which head north, or a little west of north. The dykes frequently divide and form loops. 
Many of them are of considerable size, and a few can be traced for many miles in nearly right 
lines. They are, whatever their actual age may be geologically, undoubtedly subsequent to 
the ' quartz reefs,’ through which they arc seen to pass, and portions of which they show im¬ 
bedded in the mass of trappean matter along the edges of the dyke. 
Some curious outliers of the in fra-trappean limestone were noticed in the southern part 
of Lullutpur well out on the general flat composed of the crystalline rocks and covered by the 
ordinary Malwa and Deccan trap rocks; these are of the usual earthy and cherty light coloured 
calcareous rocks, in places worked for lime to whitewash the houses with. North of 
Jacklone the base of the series, as elsewhere in Saugor, is formed of pebbles of sandstone in 
which numerous fragments of chert and limestone occur. When the soft matrix is washed 
out the beds appear to consist only of these pebbles, occasionally some feet in thickness. 
Black soil occurs in all these localities over the kunkury clay, which forms beds of considera¬ 
ble thickness, 30 to 50 feet. Mr. Willson also notices a remarkable local development of 
