APPENDIX. 



" The stones that are employed in building the temples at 

 Magadi are : 



" 1. The granitic porphyry,, or the granite which contains 

 large masses of red felspar in a small-grained mixture of grey 

 quartz and black mica, which I described at Rdma-giri. Near 

 Savanadurga there is an excellent quarry of this stone. 



" 2. A granite, consisting chiefly of black mica and red 

 felspar. This may be procured of a very large size. 



" 3. The common grey granite of the country. 



" I met also with the two following stones : 



" 1. A granite with large grains, black and white. This 

 may be procured of great size. 



" 2. A most ornamental aggregated rock. The basis is 

 green, of what nature I am uncertain $ perhaps it may be a 

 hornstone. It contains veins of white quartz, and concretions 

 of red felspar. The whole takes an elegant polish, and may, 

 in Mr. Kirwan's acceptation of the word, be considered as a 

 porphyry. Near the surface the rock is full of rents ; but by 

 digging deep, it is said large masses may be procured. It 

 seems to differ from the fine green stone which was found in 

 the palace at Seringapatam, only by containing felspar." * 



Quarry of black stone. 



" This quarry is situated about half a mile east from the 

 village f, and rises in a small ridge about half a mile long, 

 100 yards wide, and from 20 to 50 feet in perpendicular 

 height. This ridge runs nearly north and south, in the com- 

 mon direction of the strata of the country, and is surrounded 

 on all sides by the common grey granite, which, as usual, is 

 penetrated in all directions by veins of quartz and felspar; 

 but neither of these enter the quarry. 



" This stone is called Caricullu, or black stone, by the na- 

 tives, who give the same appellation to the quartz impreg- 

 nated with iron, and to the brown hematites 5 and in feet 



* Vol. i. p. 182. f Cada-hully. 



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