2 KING: KADAPAH AND KARNUL FORMATIONS. [PART I. 
As to whether these rocks occur in other parts of India, there is 
ی‎ yet much to be cleaned up; but, as will be shown 
of “Vindhyan? and jn future pages, there are good grounds for con- 
lower rocks. : 
cluding that this may be the case, and that the . 
KADAPAHS and KARNULS may eventually turn out to be partly repre- 
sentative of the great Vinpuyan series of India, and of a possibly 
underlying formation. 
'The area of the rocks now to be described is in shape like a peninsula, 
ACEO ROSE the broad part of which lies along and to the north 
Eastern Ghats. of the left bank of the Kistnah river, having its 
western edge near the junction of the Toongabudra with that river, or 
near the town of Kurnool, and its eastern edge some thirty-four miles 
west of Guntoor. From this northern basis, the peninsula-shaped area 
extends southwards past Gooty on the west, and Nellore some distance 
to the east, to its apex, in the sacred hills of Tripetty and the neighbour- 
ing outliers of Narnaveram and Naggery, which lie between forty and 
fifty miles west-north-west of the town of Madras. 
It is, in fact, a broad section of the Eastern Ghats, with the town 
of Cuddapah situated very nearly in its centre. 
Geographically, this country lies between the 13° 20' and 17° 
parallels of north latitude, and between the 77° 
47’ and 80° 15' meridians of east longitude. It 
is about 210 miles long and about ninety-five miles wide in its longest— 
Position and extent. 
north-south and east-west—axes, and embraces an area very little under 
13,500 square miles. It will be found on Sheets 58, 59, 75, 76, 77, 
and 78 of the Indian Atlas. The orthography adopted on these maps 
is also used in the present memoirs, although not correct, but it 
was found impossible to alter it uniformly. 
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