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To the nortli the quartzites dip under a thick series o£ clay schists 



^ , . , , . , which occupy the fiat immediately north of the 

 Overlying clay scliists. _ "^ 



gorge extending up to a low quartzite ridge formed 



Manoli anticlinal, ° 



by a reappearance of the upper part of the base- 

 ment series in a sharply flexed anticlinal which abuts on the left bank 

 of the river close to Manoli (Munolee), forming a well-marked elliptical 

 head ere disappearing again under the schists. To the west this" anti- 

 clinal sinks very low, but then rises again and joins the south-east 

 extension of the Katharigarh plateau south of Madlur. The laro>e 

 village of Manoli stands upon the clay schists^ and is principally built 

 of a flaggy variety of the same^ which are exposed in the dry season in 

 the bed of the Malprabha immediately opposite the village * 



Eastward from the Naul Tirth the boundary of the Kalado-i basin 

 is formed by a line of bluff quartzite hills^ showing here and there preci- 

 pitous scarps. The bases of the scarps are everywhere obscured by talus 

 and the underlying gneiss rocks are very seldom seen. No section of 

 special interest is seen for many miles^ though the quartzites are well cut 



into in various places^ as in the Sure-Kollu ravine 

 Sure-Kollu section. 



six miles south-east-by-east of Eamdurg^ and at 

 the gorges by which the Malprabha leaves the Kaladgi basin at Bidduo-al. 

 In the former section the quartzites form a fine cliff from 200 to 250 

 feet high. 



The several outliers of the quartzite series which occur south of 

 ^ ,^ „. tlie Kaladgi basin are the Parasgarh, Chulki 



Southern outliers. s> ^ "-^ 



(Choolkee), Chik Nargund^ and Nargund hills. 



* Manoli is a place of some historic interest, for it was here that General Wellesley 

 first came upon the notorious robber chief Doondia Wang, whose strong entrenched camp 

 immediately opposite the village was at once attacked and taken by a cavalrv charo-e when 

 some thousands of the panic-stricken freebooters rushed into the swollen river, and o'reat 

 numbers were drowned. 



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