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Rajpeepla hills. North of this again a high dip is seen in the traps, 



10° and 15° to north- 15°- west, and a similar dip occurs further west to 



the south of Sultanpoor. 



North of Sultanpoor, the hills rise from the plains in* flat mural 



ridges of no great height, but they gradually 

 Hills near Akranee. 



increase in size to the westward, till they culminate 



in the hoff-backed masses around Akranee fort. So far there has been 



an apparently low eastwardly dip from near Sultanpoor^. About 



Akranee, the northern dip commences, which continues throughout the 



southern portion of Akranee and Kantee. 



To the west of Akranee fort, there occurs, along the southern 



verge of the range, a succession of steep craggy 

 Hills west of Akranee. 



peaks, the form of which is widely different from 



the usual flat-topped or hog-backed ridges formed of the trap, and rather 

 resembles in appearance hills of granitic or gneissic rocks. These 

 peaks rise directly from the plains of Khandeish and tower some hundreds 

 of feet above the general elevation of the range ; to the north of them, 

 broad terraces slope away to the northward towards Kantee. The beds 

 of trap composing these terraces have a low dip to the north, which 

 has evidently had but little to do with the peculiar shape assumed by 

 the summits of the range ; the latter must be due to subaerial denuda- 

 tion. By aneroid measurement, one peak, not the highest, but also not 

 far short of the highest, was 3,200 feet above the plain of Khandeish, 

 the latter being probably 600 or 700 feet above the sea, so that these 

 hills are very little below 4,000 feet in height. 



There is a fine view of this range from the neighbourhood of 

 Kookurmoonda. To the westward the peaks cease, and the range 



* It appears to be to the eastward looking from the plain to the south. These low 

 dips on the larger hills are difficult to determine exactly without climbing the hills, which 

 there was not time to do in every case. 



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