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although the hornblende-schists and quartzo-hornblendie gneiss are fre- 
quently well exposed.” 
The copper ore of the denuded valley of the Oondootla plateau is well 
worthy of examination: only it bas this disadvantage that it is the only 
ore occurring here. In the Jungumrajpilly region, however, the ore if 
it be of any extent, of which there are no satisfactory evidences just 
. now, would be worked out whilst the apparently much more extensively 
occurring lead ore was being mined. 
The traces of ore north of the Vinukonda dome are not sufficiently 
rich to justify an attempt at mining, considering the out-of-the-way 
and deserted locality. 
There are other traces of copper on the eastern edge of the field 
between Vinukonda and the Goondlacumma river; but they are 
extremely faint. The cmysrALLINES of the Nellore country further 
south also contain traces; but these are in the eastern part of the Raepoor 
Taluqs, well outside the area of the present description. 
The most favorable-looking and best known metalliferous regions in 
the Cuddapah field are the lead mines of Jungum- 
Lead mines in Nulla- 
mullays. rajpilly and Buswapoor or Gazarpully in the 
Nullamullays.* Both these localities are now deserted and overgrown 
with jungle; and they are in feverish regions, where during the healthy 
season, there are few local means at hand for the working of the mines. 
That of Jungumrajpilly is the best locality, as far as health and supply 
of labour are concerned, for there is the village close at hand. The 
Buswapoor mines are far from any village, in what is at present a tiger- 
infested tract of the Nullamullays,; and badly supplied with water. 
* These have been reported on by P. W. Wall, Esq. the then Government Mineral- 
Viewer, in the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. XX. N. S., pp. 279-304: 1859. 
T The tigers can, of course, be got rid of; but when I was there in the healthy season, 
that is, in the hot weather when the forest is leafless, there was only a little pool of water 
near the old workings, at which the wood-cutters fill their water-skins. The water was thick, 
dirty, and had a strong metallic taste ; itisthe only water to be got for many miles round. 
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