4^ lOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY. 



north-west to the Sorapur and Shahpur (Shawpoor) hills, to the west- 

 ward of which is a great band of schistose rocks which 1 will call the 

 Maski (Moosky) band, after the large village of that name which 

 stands on the band in question. 



In the north this granite-gneiss area reaches up to the limestone 

 plain of the Bhima and Kogni valleys, and to the south it stretches away 

 far into Bellary District. 



Westward of this great spread of granitoid gneiss rocks, they 



recur again in several bands with intermediate 



Mudgal-Jaldrug gran- ^^^^ ^^ schistose rock. The first of these proceed- 



itoid band. ^ 



ing westward is the Mudgal- (Moodgul) Jaldrug 

 band, which joins the hills round the former place (an important town 

 and fortress in mediaeval times, and a great bone of contention between 

 the Musalmans of Bijapur and the Hindus at Bijanagar), and the group 

 of bold hills through which the Krishna has cut the fine gorge at the 

 head of Jaldrug island. 



On the north bank of the Krishna river this granitoid band extends 

 itself to the north-eastward, and apparently joins the granitoid mass of 

 the Sorapur hills, which belongs to the Raichur granite gneiss area. 



Westward of this Mudgal-Jaldrug granitoid gneiss band is a re- 

 markable and well-defined band of schistose rocks 

 baS°"°™^'' ''^''*'°'' ^^o'l* eight to-twelve miles broad, running north- 

 westward from the town Tawurugiri till it dis- 

 appears under the eastern edge of the Kaladgi basin. This band of 

 schistose rocks may conveniently be called the Hunugunda (Hoonoo- 

 goonda) schistose band. Westward of this is a broad band of granitoid 

 rocks striking equally in a north-west direction, and extending up to and 

 under the south-e^st end of the Kaladgi basin and its numerous out- 

 liers to the east of the Malprabha river. The western extension of this 

 granitoid band, which may conveniently be desig- 

 baS!'^*""^' ^'^'''^'''^ »ated as the Kushtugi band, is hidden by the 

 great cotton soil spread covering the Dharwar plain ; 

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