264 MIDNAPORE, OEISSAj &C. 



The province bouudary then returns eastward, and from this point 

 Country from Khoor- nearly to the Cliilica Lake none but detached hills 

 dah to Chilka Lake. ^^^^^^ ^^l of which are of gneiss, the plains be- 



tween them being of laterite and alluvium. The group of hills near 

 Chutterma are composed of compact gneiss, most of the others are of 

 garnetiferous rock with occasional bands of quartzose gneiss. Such are 

 Khoordah hill and the smaller lulls about it, and also those east of the 

 Kuttak and Ganjam road between Rammeswur and Mouglajuri. 

 Throughout the country south of the Mahanuddi, dykes of all kinds are 

 rare, trap is entirely wanting, and granitic veins seldom seen. 



The more compact forms of the gneissose rocks exhibit exfoliation very 

 finely, and this is especially the case in the northern 

 parts of the Nilghiri hills. The strike is shewn by 

 enera s ri . ^^^ preceding details to be very ii-regular, but, ne- 



vertheless, the tendency seems to be, throughout the area, for it to conform 

 to a general east and west direction, as is the case in so many other parts 

 of the country. 



Sandstones. — As stated above, the only place, within the districts 



included in our map, where the older sedimentary 

 Kuttak or Atgurh ^' J 



sandstones. rocks occur, lies to the S. West of the town of 



Kuttak, in the district of Atgurh. Here sandstone rocks compose a 

 small cluster of hills, quite uncultivated and covered with dense jungle. 

 These rocks consist of coarse grits, sandstones, and conglomerates, 

 with one band at least (perhaps more than one), 

 of white or pinkish clay which is largely dug by 

 the natives. In this clay a few indistinct vegetable remains have been 

 noticed ; none of which, however, were sufficiently well preserved or 

 well marked to be of use in ascertaining the affinities of the beds. At 

 the base, or what appears to be the base of these strata, on their west- 

 ern edge, is a coarse conglomerate, the pebbles being chiefly of quartzite, 

 a few being of an altered and hardened sandstone. 



