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POOTE: SOUTH MAHRATTA COUNTRY, 



The relation of the iron beds to the associated chloritic and horn- 

 WeDdic schists is locally very obscure. This haematite bed is un- 

 questionably, I think, the same as that which again rises into a high 

 and conspicuous ridge to the west of the high road from Tawurugiri 

 to Ling Sugur, and may be traced still further nortb-west to the 

 Kandagal hills (Kundagul), and on to Tumbigi (Toombigee), some nine 

 miles further. It is then lost under a great spread of cotton soil, but 

 another band of similar hsematite-schists rises out of the cotton soil at 

 the town of Hunugunda, which may very reasonably be regarded as the 

 reappearance of the hsematite bed traced from the Jiadigudda to 

 Tumbigi. The Hunugunda ridge itself disappears under the vast 

 cotton soil spread here covering the face of the country for miles around^ 

 and for six or seven miles no sign of the haematite beds can be traced till 

 the Malprabha river is reached. At some distance from the left or 

 western bank of the river, hsematite-schist beds again appear in force 

 and occupying a position such as perfectly to justify the assumption 

 that they represent the Hunugunda-Jiadigudda beds. These beds, west 

 of the Malprabha, form several hills near Hamblikop and Byranmatti 

 (Byrunmuttee), and are manifestly continuous with the two great beds 

 which disappear under the Kaladgi rocks, the northern one at the 

 Karlimatti pagoda hill, the southern one a little to the south-west of 



Yerkal, where it crosses the Ghatprabha river. A 

 Yerkal cliffs. 



very picturesque cliff of hsematite-schist rises on 



the western bank of the river, but the band of which it forms part 



disappears under the basement quartzites of the Kaladgi series on either 



side of the river. From its position there can be but little doubt that 



this bed is a westward extension of that which first disappears under the 



Kaladgi rocks at the Karlimatti pagoda hill. The great cliff, as seen 



from the south, is shown in the accompanying sketch (Plate II) . 



Except at the Jiadigudda and at the Meyrudodi Pagoda, some nine miles 



to the north-westward, this great hsematitie band (for it can hardly be 



regarded as one bed) is nowhere rich in iron, and near Kandagal it 



differs from the others in becoming rather argillaceous in character. 



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