1(3 W. BLANPORD, WESTERN TNDIA. [PaRT I. 



the hills around Chiculdah is given : the trap of which they are chieHy 

 formed is described, and the occurrence of sandstone and limestone un- 

 derlying' the trap is noticed and commented upon. Dr. Bradley also 

 describes the occurrence of fossils in the trap of Shepe Ghat near EUich- 

 poor, the name of which pass, he suggests^ may be derived from the native 

 word sepe (or rather sipi), a shell. He enters at some length into the 

 question of the origin of the traps which he considers probably sub- 

 marine. The greater portion of the paper is not geological. 



The Reverend S. Hislop, in his various papers on the geology of thfe 



Nagpoor country, has occasionally referred to the 



neighbourhood of Ell ich poor and Baitool. The 



former station he visited on a mission tour in company with Mr. Hunter. 



But no detailed description is given by him of any portion of the 



present area. 



Other papers, besides Mr. Hislop's, referring to neighbouring tracts 



of country, such as the Deccan and Southern Berar, serve to illustrate 

 the geology of this area. Such are the well known papers of Dr. Mal- 

 colmson and Colonel Sykes in the Transactions of the Geological Society. 

 But these do not refer to any portion of the country included in the 

 present map. 



3. Eastern Guzerat, including Bajpeepla. 



One of the earliest geological notices on any part of India is an 

 account by Mr. J. Copelaud of the Cornelian 

 mines in the neighbourhood of Broach. This 

 paper, which was published as long ago as 1815 in the transactions of the 

 Literary Society of Bombay {a) the predecessor of the present Bombay 

 Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society gave an account of a visit from 

 Broach to the agate mines near Ruttunpoor. The description of the 

 mines and of the method of preparing the pebbles is excellent and 



(a). Vol. I, p. 289. The paper appears also to have been sent to the Geological Society 

 of London ; a notice of it appears in Geol. Trans., Vol. IV, p. 447. 



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