8 FOOTE : SOUTH MAURATTA COUNTRY. 



To the north of Kaladgi are two very rocky ridges known as the 



Kundurgi Hills, which run parallel several miles 

 Eundurgi Hills. , , 



west- by-north from the Kundurgi village. Ihe 



northern ridge dies away in the great plain north of Mudhol town ; but 

 the southern one joins a low ridge near Wajarmatti, which turns south- 

 ward to the bank of the Ghatprabha, and is continued across the river in 

 a rocky reef, and rises again into the hills north and west of Jembigi 

 (Jembeegee), which finally disappear in the plain north of Yadwad. 



The transverse ridge in Kaladgi district which joins the two 



principal spurs has already been referred to. 

 Sita Dongar chain. -^ n 



It forms a great and acute angle to the west- 

 ward, and this bend is twice cut near its apex by the Ghatprabha 

 River. This ridge is called the "Sitadonga'^ in Captain Newbold's 

 geological notes of the South Mahratta Country. 



Another transverse band of hills, the Badami 

 Badami Hills. 



Hills, joins the north Ghatprabha Spur with the 



north Malprabha Spur. 



To the east of the Badami Hills, on the right bank of the Malprabha 

 Gudar. Hanam Sagar ^^^^^^ ^^ ^ striking group of detached, flat-topped 

 plateau hills. ^^^^^^ rising from 300 to 500 feet above the 



surrounding country. They are capped with sandstones resting on granitoid 

 gneiss, and extend 20 miles east-south-east parallel with the Gajendra- 

 garh ridge above mentioned, and, like it, terminate in a bold, bluff head- 

 land overhanging the small town of Hanam Sagar in the Nizam's 

 territory. These hills are the easternmost extension of rocks belonging 

 to the Kaladgi series. 



The whole of that part of the Raichur Doab (the space between the 

 Krishna and Tungabhadra Rivers) that comes within the area of the map 

 accompanying this report, is occupied by gneissic rocks. Many small 

 groups of hills and many isolated hills are scattered over this large area ; 



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