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A variety of the quartzites in the western scarps between Taykoor 
A. and Yeldoorly on the Kurnool Government road 
is largely worked for grinding-stones. This rock 
is a coarse, rough-grained felspathic grit, which is not so vitreous as 
the ordinary quartzites. In many other parts of the country close- 
grained grits are quarried for the same purpose. The half weathered 
beds are generally quarried in those parts of the beds which now look 
like unaltered sandstones. 
As already related, there is no approach among the clay-slates to 
the slate of commerce, though thin slates are 
ns obtainable, and thinner and better ones might be 
obtained by quarrying and more skilful splitting than is at present in 
fashion among the people of the country. 
Such are the direct economic resources of the country, but they are 
more adapted for the remuneration of individuals, 
Physical structure of 
the country more suited or small communities of such, than for the bene- 
for increasing the general 
welfare than these local fit of the country at large. The great resources 
SUUM CE in the distriets are the peculiar physieal features, 
which, if they are only taken advantage of in the proper manner, may 
make Cuddapah and Kurnool much wealthier and more populous regions: 
than they are. "The great defect of the whole country 1s, that 1t 1s such 
a generally dry one; while from our experience of some years’ working 
` in it, it seems gradually becoming more arid and desert-like. As with the 
cessation of mining since the Mogul times, so there has been a gradual 
falling off of attempts to turn to advantage the physical features of the 
country (which was apparently a matter of great importance with the 
Hyderabad rulers) ever since the country was taken in hands by the 
British Government. "There are all round the flanks of the Nullamullays, 
even in what are now the most deserted jungle traets, the most massive 
remains of great tanks, which have been bunded baek behind the 
deep parallel valleys which are generally backed up themselves by ridges ; 
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