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Observations on the Geology of the Meywar District. By 

 James Hardie, Esq. Member of the Medical and Physi- 

 cal Society of Calcutta. Concluded from page 335 of pre- 

 ceding volume. 



1 SHALL now proceed to give a description of the northern por- 

 tion of Meywar. The plains in the north of Meywar are ex- 

 ceedingly fertile. Many large tracts of land, however, are left 

 uncultivated; but, from the luxuriance of the jungles, with 

 which, in many situations, they are covered, we can judge of 

 the richness of the soil. This portion of the country is supplied 

 with abundance of excellent water. Besides the various rivu- 

 lets with which it is intersected, there are numerous artificial 

 lakes, some of large extent. The principal of these is the Dha- 

 bar tank, well known all over India *. 



Although the northern portion diflPers so much in its exter- 

 nal aspect from the southern, it is nevertheless, like it, composed 

 of primitive rocks. About eighty miles due east of the city of 

 Oudeypore, is the northern termination of the table land of 

 Malwah. This table land is succeeded, towards the north, by 

 flinty slate, and sandstone of a slaty structure. These rocks 

 also skirt the trap forxnation of Malwah to the west, in the form 

 of a narrow belt, which runs southward betwixt it and the 

 southern portion of Meywar, described above. To the north 

 of this formation we find a compact limestone of a bluish-grey 

 colour, slightly translucent on the edges, with a splintery inclin- 

 ing to conchoidal fracture. It is distinctly stratified, has a 

 slight dip, and easily splits into flags of considerable magnitude. 

 It forms a favourite building stone with the natives, and seems 

 admirably adapted for this purpose. It contains nothing like 

 fossil organic remains, and appears to rest immediately on the 

 clay-slate formation. The flinty slate strata, mentioned above, 

 are arranged exactly in a similar manner with these, and might, 

 at first sight, be mistaken for them. These formations extend 



• The Dhabar tank, and also the Oudeypore tank, are formed by magni- 

 ficent dams thrown across the beds of the rivers Bedus and Gometee. These 

 dams are faced with white marble, and are adorned with small temples, sculp, 

 lured elephants: &c. Vide Makom's Central India. 



