FOOTE: SOUTH MAHEATTA COUNTRY. 



As already mentioned in Chapter VIIj the iron -clay forms a well- 

 defined and very conspicuous capping on the summits of the highest 

 ridges and peaks in the Belgaum and South Kolhapur sections of the 

 The summit iron-clay Sahyadrij or Western Ghat, mountains, and the fact 

 ^ ®" of many of these very peaks and ridges having 



been chosen to be fortified and converted into the strongholds of the 

 old Mahratta Chiefs was pointed out specially. In addition to the peaks 

 and ridges there named, many others occur on which this capping of 

 argillo-ferruginous rocks forms very marked and striking features. The 

 most important of these cappings which may be regarded as the remains 

 of a once widely-extended bed will be enumerated below. Some form 

 outliers on the older rocks where the latter are of great elevation and 

 stand up above the general mass of the trap flows^ but are overlapped 

 by the ferruginous beds. 



The principal outliers of the summit bed, counting them from the 

 Outliers of the sum- Southern extremity of the trap area northward, 

 ""''' '''^- are :— 



1. The Jamhoti ridge. 



2. Bailur (Byloor) trigonometrical station: Peak 3491' high. 



3. The Kurleh and Buknur hills, south-west of Belgaum. 



4. Kalanandigarh and Matungi, and the high spur connecting them with 



5. Mahipalgarh ridge. 



6. Gandharvagarh ridge. 



7. Wagbud and Kasarsadda plateau west a,nd south-west of Chandgarh. 



8. The high ridge between the waters of the Ghatprahha and Haran Kashi south of 



Amboli, and also from a little north of the Belgaum and Vingorla road north- 

 east-by-north to the Khanapore trigonometrical station hill near Azra (Ajra of 

 map). Several outliers occur also along the spur running from west to east 

 towards Naisri. This spur is connected with the Samaugarh knot of hills and 

 its several outliers of the summit bed. 



9. The group of high spurs north-west of Kittura (Kittoora), from the most southerly 



of which starts the great Budhargarh ridge with its various branches, on which 

 the summit bed is very typically exposed. 



10. The high ridge dividing the valleys of the Yed and Dudh Gunga rivers, including 



the well-marked plateau north of Paia (Pyah), 



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