'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎196] (329/458)

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GEOLOGY OF BOMBAY.
Hili to be an extension of those seen at Mahaluximee, at Love
Grove, and again at Worlee ; from the wood stacks to the base of Tar.
deo Hill, and again from Mahaluximee to close by the sluices, and in a
straight line from this to the extreme end of Worlee Hill, the rock is
hid under alluvium, and there are various similar beds close at hand
So far as the outcrop is visible along the seashore, the beds under Mala
bar Hill are of a pale ochrey yellow : they dip at an angle of about 15°
W. and by S., and seem about forty feet in thickness, conjoining the
perpendicular scarp in the cliff with that showing itself horizontally
under the tide. The upper beds, as exposed are much less friable
than the under ones. Some feet below the trap large compact masses,
containing small scales of mica, have been met in with: some of these
are perfectly black, charged with carbon : when freshly broken they
smell strongly of naphtha, and might readily be mistaken for strata of
the coal formation. Some of them abound in small crystals of sulpliuret
of iron, supposed by the natives, when first found, to contain gold.
Impressions of reeds and grasses are found in abundance both on the
black and yellow shales—I have not met with any other remains, but
have no doubt that they exist in abundance. The beds first show
themselves about half a mile inland from Malabar Point, where they
emerge somewhat suddenly from under the basalt—they are not trace
able on the other side of the hill. They continue along the line of the
public road and sea shore for about two miles, when they are buried by
the marine deposits from the wood stacks up to near the Gowalla
Here I have met with them in the bottom of several wells
near the country residence of Juggonath Sunkersett. They are once
more lost sight of till seen again in an excavation at the edge of the
flats opposite the Bee Hive near Mahaluximee and near the vclarJ;
and just on the seaward side of this, on the beach opposite the residence
of Sir Jamsotjee Jejeebhoy. the strata are seen set on edge striking out
betwixt two beds of trap till they thin away into a point. The bed
re-appears in the same line as that in winch it is last seen, betwixt tbe
sea and shingle beach below the low precipitous cliff under the temple
o wim Hill, which iorms the southern part of the Love Grove group
of eminences. Here the strata are nearly horizontal, the colour of the
rock a somewhat brownish yellow ; the mass visible is about three
ieet in thickness. Both towards the land and round by the seashore,
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