3 FOOTE : SOUTH MAHRATTA. COUNTRY. 



A very large portion of tlie South Mahratta Country is inhabited 

 by Canarese people, who differ very widely in appearance, as well as in 

 language, from their Mahratta neighbours. The name in question is, 

 however, practically a very useful one as defining very nearly the limits 

 of the country whose geological structure is to be described in the 

 following pages, and which forms a belt of rather irregular width stretch- 

 ing from longitude E. 77° 40' near Hyderabad in the Deccan, to the 

 western coast between the town of Ratnagiri and the Goa territory. 



The country here treated of has an area of about 16,000 square 

 miles. Of this, the north-eastern portion was 



Limits and extent of • j i n tit t/-* t\ a. 



gj.gjj examined by my colleague Mr. King, Deputy 



By whom surveyed. Superintendent, Geological Survey of India, and 

 the western portion from the edge of the western 

 ghats, westward to the sea, by Mr. C. Wilkinson, lately a member of the 

 Geological Survey of India. The central part, extending from the 

 western edge of the ghats eastward close up to the Madras Railway in 

 the Raichur Doab, and up to the right bank of the Bhima river from 

 its junction with the Krishna as far north as a line extending from the 

 river westward across Shapur hill to Kembhavi, and measming about 

 10,000 square miles, was surveyed by me between December 1869 and 

 May 1874. 



This area includes, to the east, a large portion of the Nizam^s 



territory belonging to the Gulbarga and Sholapur 



divSs.''^ ''"^ ^'''^ taluks north of the Krishna River, and of the 



Raichur and Ling Sugur (Mudgal) talukas in 



the Raichur Doab.'^ Further west, the central part of the area lies 



possible to the system of spelling employed in the official list published by the Government 

 of India. The new spelling is not given in the sketch map accompanying this report, as it 

 had been drawn and lithographed before the publication of the official list. In doubtful 

 cases the names are retained as given in the Atlas sheet. When the new spelling diflfers 

 much from the old, the latter is given in brackets. 



* The triangular area between the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, eastward of the 

 frontier of the Bombay presidency. 



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