210 eoote: sodth mahratta country. 



some of the lower-lyiug beds^ and nearly all of these occur ia or very 

 near to the ghat region^ and the most important very close to the 

 watershed, and therefore generally close to the edge of the ghat scarp, 

 more especially in the extreme south corner of the trap area. 



A very extensive show of " lateritoid" iron-clays occurs at and to 

 the east and west of Ram Ghat. The rock there 



At Ram Ghat. 



forms a nearly level ridge with a ragged scarped 



edge and a talus of great fallen masses, which ridge stretches away on 



the north-east into the high spur west of Hireh (Hebreh), while to the 



west it joins the Isapur (Eesapoor) plateau north of Pargarh, along the 



north side of which it forms a very distinct and generally vertical scarp 



from 30 to 60 feet high. The Ram Ghat bed. may possibly belong 



to the " summit bed,''"' but in all probability it is distinct, for not only 



does it occur at a considerably lower elevation, but it does not lie in a 



level plane as does the summit bed. Moreover, it rests in some places 



direct on a basaltic flow without the intervention of the thick clayey 



trap so constantly present under the typical outliers of the " summit 



bed.^' 



At apparently the same level are several ragged-edged plateaux 

 south and west of the high Kasarsadda ridge about the head-waters of 

 the Ghatprabba. To the same set belong the beds occurring on the 

 high ground south-west of Patna and at Kodali (Kohada) on the north 

 side of the great Tillar ravine. 



South of the Tillar ravine at Kolik (Koleek), Chigoli (Cheegooleh), 

 South of the Tillar Kunkumbeh (Koonkoombeh), Holund, and stretch- 

 ^^'*'"^^* ing out westward towards Chorleh and to the 



extreme western points of the Sadda (Suda Ft.) spur, overlooking Goa, 

 are continuous sheets of the iron-clay belonging to a bed or beds occur- 

 ring very much at one and the same level. Southward past the top 

 of the Parwar Ghat these sheets of iron-clays join those occurring at 

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