t>l KINO: NELLORE PORTION OF THE CARNATIC. 



tor appear in two or three other places, from which, however, I did not 

 succeed in procuring- any specimens. 



" I first noticed these beds close to Ramanjapuram, where a very poor 

 section is exposed in a bowry (or well). Here I noticed about 3 feet 

 of a coarse unconsolidated felspathic sandstone, with numerous small 

 scales of mica, lying horizontally under about 2 feet of pisolitic kunker ; 

 a red lateritic soil covers this to a depth of 3 feet, with a thin 

 layer of vegetable mould on the surface. Here I could detect only 

 traces of stems. For some distance east of Ramanjapooram, frag- 

 ments of similar sandstones appear thrown up from bowries and in 

 tank bunds, but the beds are certainly not continuous, as about 1 

 mile west of Sodawaram a very hard quartzose gneiss appears in situ, 

 striking north-north-west with a high dip to west-south-west. The sand- 

 stones re-appear on the west of the village of Sodawaram, where about 10 

 feet of them are seen in a well. The lower part a greenish-yellow 

 felspathic grit, with scales of mica, with some pink and purplish bands 

 runniug through them ; the upper portion is finer and more compact, 

 slightly ferruginous. In this locality again I found only indefinite stem 

 markings, and could secure no good specimens. This also is apparently 

 only a small patch of these sandstones, as immediately on entering the 

 village of Sodawaram, quartzo-micaceous gneiss appears, and on the 

 east of the village quartzo-hornblendic gneiss and hornblendic schists, 

 and the sandstones, as far as I could find, do not re-appear in this 

 direction. 



" North-west of Ramanjapooram, in small stream courses and bowries 

 close to Corny, similar sandstones appear j I find I have noted them as 

 coarse sandstone, greenish-yellow, with pink bands, in flat-rolling beds. 

 Kunkur of no great thickness overlying them, ho rock seen underneath 

 but gneiss and hornblendic schists thrown up £rom bowries close by, no 

 dclinite remains. In the stream north-east of Corny a very little similar 

 sandstone is seen. From this eastward the stream runs through banks 

 of soil of some thickness, no rock appearing ; but close to Mootoomor- 

 polliam, in three or four bowries, from 15 to 20 feet of sandstone appear 

 in level beds, quartzose and felspathic with scales of mica. Some finer 

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