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Beema, Godavery, Kistnah, and other large rivers of Dukhun, 
extensive sheets of water, called Dho or Dhao, are formed, 
which abound with fish. 
Roads and Bridges.—The roads in Dukhun, with the ex- 
ception of two great military roads, are untouched by art; and 
few of the rivers can boast of a bridge. 
Geology. 
Previously to entering into descriptive details, I will state in 
a few words, that the whole country comprised within my 
boundaries is composed of distinctly stratified trap rocks, 
without the intervention of the rocks of any other formation. 
Whether at the level of the sea, or at the elevation of 4500 
feet, in all and every part beds of basalt and amygdaloid are 
found alternating, whose superior and inferior planes preserve 
a striking parallelism to each other, and, as far as the eye can 
judge, to the horizon. Barometrical measurements and the 
course of rivers indicate a declination of the country to the 
east-south-east, and south-east; from the town of Goreh, 
latitude 19°-03 and longitude 74°05, on the Goreh river, 
following a mean course for the river until it falls into the 
Beema, and subsequently, continuing a mean course for the 
Beema, until its junction with the Seena river, the distance 
is about 200 miles, and the declination 671 feet: there may 
therefore be a trifling dip of the strata; but as a succession 
of low terraéés occur in that distance, the apparent horizontal 
position of the strata may be unaffected by the above dif- 
ence of level. 
Dr. M‘Culloch, describing the overlying or trap rocks, 
says, ‘these masses are generally irregular, but sometimes 
bear indistinct marks of stratification*.” As Dr. M‘Culloch’s 
language implies the rare occurrence of stratification, instead 
of its being a distinctive feature, at least, of the Indian branch 
of the trap family, I deem it necessary to quote the few 
authors who have written on Indian geology, in confirmation 
of the fact I have stated +. 
. Classification of Rocks, p. 466. 
’“These mountains (the Vindhya range), like every other in Malwa, 
appear to be distinctly stratified, consisting of alternate horizontal beds of 
dasalt or trap, and amygdaloid. Fourteen of these beds may, in general, be 
jreckoned, the thinnest at the top, and rapidly increasing in thickness as they 
lower in position, the basalt stratum at the bottom being about 200 feet thick.” 
| Again, at page 327, he says, “In the upper plains of Malwa, every point of 
view presents the same uniform and distinctly streaked appearance noticed in 
jthe Vindhya range.”—Captain Dangerfield, in Geological Notices of Malwa, 
in Appendix, No. 2, to Sir John Malcolm’s Central India, pp. 322, 327. 
