8 W. BLANEORD, WESTERN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



have attached much faith, for he mentions the absence of recent volcanic 

 action in the country aroundj although he refers to the stories of craters 

 existing in the Vindhya and Eajpeepla hUls. These stories the general 

 geological investigation of the country has shown to be quite unfounded. 



The concluding portion of Captain Dangerfield^s paper contains a 

 description of the countiy on the road from Malwa to Gruzerat through 

 Alice and Chota Oodipoor. His miueralogieal observations are excellent, 

 and have frequently been corroborated by the present survey, and his 

 demarcation of the trap boundary on the Lower Nerbudda is a rough 

 but good sketch. His other boundaries are less correct. 



In another volume of the same transactions,' Captain John Stewart 



gave some "Geological notes on the strata be- 

 Stewaxt, 1821. ^ 



tween Malwa and Guzerat («) " This is another 



account of the rocks met with in a journey from Mhow to Baroda via 



Dhar, Kanas, Rajpoor, and Tejgurh. 



A very interesting account of the geological features of the country 



traversed by Mr. James B. Fraser on his way 

 Fraser, 1822. 



from Delhi to Bombay via, Neemuch, Mhow, 



Mandoo, Bagh, the Sindwa Ghat, Khandeish, and Nassik (6), deserves more 

 attention, as although only entitled " Description accompanying a collec- 

 tion of specimens,^^ it is not, like many papers of the period, a mere 

 enumeration of names of rocks seen, with minute mineralogical details, 

 which are now known to be of comparatively small importance. 

 Mr. Fraser observed the very marked stratification of the traps forming 

 the Malwa Ghats, and his estimate of the number of beds is pretty 

 nearly the same as Dangerfield's, 15 or 16. He appears to have been the 

 first to notice the limestone, of which so many of the palaces and mosques 



in the Eajpeepla bills appear to be due to the existence of a so-called lake upon the plateau at 

 Toorun Mull, but this is palpably an artificial tank of large size, the -w-atcr being dammed by 

 a bund, as was noticed by Lieutenant C. P. liigby. Trans, Bombay Geog, Soc, Vol. IX, p. 1. 



(«). Trans. Bomb. Lit. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 538. 



(6). Geological Trans., Sor. 2, Vol. I, p. 141. 



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