2 W. BLANTORD, WESTEEN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



Nagpoor, in the Central Provinces, and the greater part of East and 

 states and poUtical ^^st Berar ;— in the centre, AUeerajpoor and 

 divisions included. ig^^j^^ north of the Nerbudda, the Nimar district 



of the Central Provinces, a large tract belonging to Indore, the States of 

 Burwanee, Akranee, and Kantee, and the northern portion of Khan- 

 deish; — and to the west, Chota Oodipoor, the Mewassee States and 

 Rajpeepla, all included in the Kewa Kanta, together with the Gaikwar's 

 territories around and south of Baroda, and portions of the districts 

 of Broach and Surat. 



The topographical maps employed during the survey, and from which 

 Topographical Maps *^^ accompanying geological map is compHed, vary 

 availaUe for. greatly in value, and in some portions of the 



country, as in the Baitool district of the Central Provinces, and the 

 wild regions of Akranee, Kantee, &c,, in the Western Satpooras, none 

 whatever could be obtained, so that the geological lines had to be 

 laid down on a rough sketch of the country, made by watch and 

 compass. A very large portion of the area mapped consists of trap, 

 and throughout this, it was only necessary to ascertain the absence of 

 any other rock, which was frequently satisfactorily effected by an examin- 

 ation of the pebbles in the streams flowing from the several hill ranges, 

 without devoting time to a close examination of their interior valleys.. 

 Except in Berar, nothing like a thorough topographical map was avail- 

 able in any of the more hilly tracts of the country ; the greater portion 

 of the area was only laid down with approximate accuracy on the route- 

 survey maps of the Quarter Master GeneraFs Department, which, 

 although admirably adapted for the objects for which they were intended, 

 and indeed excellent maps for all ordinary purposes,* could not possibly 

 be so accurate in their details as is necessary in order to form the basis 



* It is only fair to say, that such maps as Captain PoUexfeii's of the Eajpeepla country, 

 and Major Baigie's of the Nerbudda valley, are good useful maps, and far superior to 

 much that has been printed in the Atlas Sheets as delineations of the physical geography of 

 the country. 



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