.78 poote: south mahratta country. 



jungle fires and wood-cutters. This character of poverty in vegetation 

 belongs to the quartzites and sandstones almost universally. 



The following series of sections will show the characters of the 



e . p ,. A different members of this sub-division of the 



Series ot sections round 



the Kaiadgi basin. Kaladgi series in sufficient detail to admit of a 



correct idea of their general nature being formed. The series begins 

 at the extreme eastern end of the Kaladgi basin and follows the 

 boundary of the basin northward and westward, crossing and re-crossing 

 the Krishna to Galgali (Gulgullee) on the south bank of that river. 

 Prom these the series of sections extends into the great inlier which 

 forms the Jamkandhi ridge, stretching from opposite Biddree on the 

 Krishna to Turdul (Tardal). Hence the series of sections extends to 

 Gokak and along the Gatprabha valley to beyond Neseri (Naiseree) in 

 the southern part of Kolhapur State, from where it follows the line of 

 great and small inliers which connect, or rather indicate, the continuity 

 which subsisted before the trap covered up the surface of the country 

 between the Kaladgi basin and the homologous rocks in the Southern 

 Konkan, at the foot of the Phonda Ghat. The series is then taken up 

 again close to Kakti (five miles north of Belgaum) and followed along 

 the southern and south eastern boundaries of the Kaladgi basin to the 

 gorge of the Malprabha at Ramdhal, which completes the circuit. There 

 are many equally good sections at spots intermediate between those given ; 

 indeed, the ridges formed by these basement beds have been so ex- 

 tremely denuded of jungle that they are very bare of soil. The only 

 hindrance to ascertaining the exact nature of the rock is in most cases 

 merely the immense accumulation of debris on the surface of the beds or 

 on the slopes of the hills. 



Sections on the north-east and north sides of the Kaladgi basin. 



a. — Amingarh {Ameengurh) Section. The narrow spur of Kaladgi 

 rocks which crosses the Malprabha at Kamatgi (Kummutgee) forms a 

 synclinal valley which terminates in an elliptical curve to the westward 

 of the ruins of the old Amingarh (Ameengurh) fort. The succession 



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