28 W. BLANFOIID, WKSTEKN INDIA. [PaRT I. 



to the south, away from the river, the alluvial plain extends for a consider- 

 able distance to the westward in the direction of Charwa. From Hindia 

 to the mouth of the Chota Tawa river close to Chandgurh the rocks in 

 the river bed are principally metamorpbics; then the Nerbudda enters a 

 tract of Vindhyan* sandstones, and runs between hills of considerable 

 height for about 30 miles. The valley here, north of Poonassa, is chiefly 

 occupied by Vindhyan and Bijawur rocks; it is a wild hilly tract, com- 

 pletely covered with jungle, and almost uninhabited, belonging to the 



principality of Dhar, and sometimes known as the 



Dhar forest. -tm f • i • • -n i 



Dhar forest, a convenient term, which it will be 



well to use in speaking of it. The river emerges from this rocky and 



jungly wilderness at Burwai, and thence flows 

 Mundlaisur plain. 



past Mundlaisur and Burwanee for about 90 miles 



through an open plain, alluvial in parts and cultivated. In the 



western part of this open tract is the town of Bagh, and from that town 



to the westward about Rajpoor and Oodipoor, the 



Rath country. 



country for the most part is gently undulating with 



scattered rises of no great size, while the river enters, at the Hurin Pal, 



a narrow gorge between high trap hills, which it traverses for between 



70 and 80 miles, until it again emerges a little east of Nandode in an 



open alluvial plain, through which it runs past Broach to the sea. 



The Taptee rises near Mooltye in the trap plateau, south-east of' 



Baitool, and traverses the table land for a few 

 Taptee valley. ■ f. n t ^ ■ 



miles, when it falls suddenly into a deep gorge, 



in which, south-west of Baitool, rocks underlying the traps are exposed. 

 This gorge gradually opens, but the river flows between hills of con- 

 siderable height as far as Mel ghat, and between lower hills, but still in 

 a narrow valley, to Boorhanpoor. Here the valley widens into an alluvial 

 flat, which soon extends into the great plain of Khandeish. About 

 20 miles below Boorhanpoor the Taptee receives from the south the 



* These formations will be described below. 



( 188 ) 



