32 foote: south maiiratta country. 



including the Gold District. After pointing out the principal topogra- 

 phical and geological features of the basin generally, he addresses himself 

 specially to the country around Bail Hongal, and describes the numerous 

 hsematitic silicious schist beds which occur there and south of the 

 Malpriibha near Belowaddi. Chloritic and red argillaceous schists are 

 occasionally seen between the haematite beds, the whole much covered 

 with regur, through which run the streams which prove auriferous. Much 

 greenstone occurs in the valleys between Bail Hongal and Belowaddi. 

 (Much of this greenstone is a massive, granitoid, chloritic rock.) He 

 does not say which of these is the soui-ce of the gold he found, nor 

 does he here say how trifling was the quantity he obtained by washing. 



Dr. Carter's Summary of the Geology of India^ which was pre- 

 sented (to the Bombay Government?) in Ausrust 

 Dr. Carter, 1854. ^ _ ^ '' == 



1853, and published in the Journal of the Bombay 



Branch of the Boyal Asiatic Society for 1854, and reprinted in the 

 volume of Geological papers on Western India, contains numerous 

 references to the South Mahratta Country, based upon the writings 

 of the several geologists already named, but little or no original inform- 

 ation. He tried to correlate the formations then known with the 

 provisional classification of Indian rocks he had proposed. 



Some of the rocks in the Kaladgi basin near Bagalkot, as also 

 some in the gneissic valley north of that place, and some " slates inter- 

 laminated with grey wacke " observed near Kaladgi by Dr. Christie, were 

 classed under the head of " Cambrian and Silurian rocks " of M'Clelland. 



The limestones of the Bhima basin at Ferozabad, as well as those of 

 Kaladgi, are supposed to belong to the " Kattra Shales," while the base- 

 ment beds of the Kaladgi series exposed in the scarps over which the 

 Ghatprabha falls at Gokak are set down as " Punua sandstones " resting 

 on tlie limestones and shales. 



* The full title of this valuable contribution to Indian Geology is "' Summary of the 

 Geology of India, between the Ganges, the Indus, and Cape Coniorin, by H. J. Carter, Esq., 

 Assistant Surgeon, H. C. S., Bombay." The foot notes bring the information up to 1857. 



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