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as yet be considered as an established fact, many of the intermediate 

 out-crops having an apparently vertical dip, which renders it a matter of 

 great difficulty, and indeed of impossibility, to assign them their 

 true positions, except by a large series of very minute observations. This 

 is readily to be understood if the vast extent of the forests covering these 

 mountain ranges be taken into consideration, in addition to the fact of 

 the extensive alteration of character and the great and wide-spread con- 

 tortions of these metamorphic rocks. 



Of the other beds of magnetic iron met with in various parts of our 

 area, none demand any very special notice. They are, therefore, merely 

 included in the following list with a few remarks as to their mode of 

 occurrence. 



The order in which they are given is that in which they would be 

 met with in travelling east from the Teertamullay as far as the road from 

 Manalurpett to Trinomallee, then turning south and passing along the 

 Kalroyen range southward to the Patchamullays, and then westward by 

 the north end of the KolymuUays into the Rajapooram Talook. 



No magnetic iron was met with in the area north-west of a line 

 drawn from the Chalk hills round the southern slope of the Shervaroyen- 

 muUay, and up the Munjawaddy Pass, past Huroor, to the northern boun- 

 dary of the country already surveyed. The folio w- 

 List of less important . ■,- , ,^ ' i i 



beds of iron-ore. mg hst then includes the less important beds of 



magnetic iron : — 

 1. North-east by north of Pemaraputty. 



3. North-east of Naringypaudy (indicated only by unrolled 

 debris) . 

 g ^ ^ fS. About a mile south of Warrioor hill (Trigonometrical 

 ;>^ '^ J station). 



«s "^ S 4. On the south bank of the Punniar river (Panar river of 



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£ L map) half a mile east of Porasaputtoo. 



5. Between Pompurapy and the great tank at Paukum. 



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