PART II. 



Detailed Descriptions. 



Section 1. — North op the Nerbudda prom'Bhopal and Hoshunga- 

 BAD to Sutwas and Chandgurh. 



This portion of the country embraces,, besides the valley of the 

 Nerbudda, a small tract of the Bhopal table-land, which is drained 

 by the head waters of the Betwa. Here the Vindhyan rocks appear, 

 for the last time, in the neighbourhood of the Nerbudda, in any portion 

 of the table-land, their more western exposures in this direction are 

 confined to the low ground in the immediate neighbourhood of the river. 



The table-land rises abruptly from the flat ground of the valley. 



Distribution of forma- P^^* ^^ *^^ ^^^^P ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ing formed of 

 *^°^^- Vindhyans, while to the west it consists entirely 



of trap. The surface in the valley is variously constituted, trap, Vind- 

 hyans, Bijawurs and metamorphic rocks all occurring, while the greater 

 portion of them are concealed beneath alluvium. 



The road from Hoshungabad to Bhopal passes for the most part 



Road from Hoshunga- ^^^^ Vindhyan rocks. On leaving the river it 

 bad to Bhopal. ascends almost immediately, the hills at Hoshunga- 



bad coming down close to the north bank of the Nerbudda, The 

 ascent to the table-land is gradual over well bedded pink or purplish 

 quartzite-sandstone, dipping at a low angle to south-west by south. 

 About the summit level a patch of overlying trap is traversed, but it is 

 of no great extent. About 12 miles south of Bhopal, a cotton soil plain 

 is entered, which continues for 5 or 6 miles, the road then crosses trap, 

 and Vindhyans come in again about 2 miles from the city of Bhopal, 

 which stands upon them. 



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