2 BUNDELCUND. 



line of junction. This escarpment scarcely varies in outline for its whole 



length, even when formed of very different rocks, its nature being, a 



vertical cliff with steep undercliff, the height ranging between 500 and 



800 feet, above the level of sea. 



The country on the north belongs to two distinct regions, — that of the 



Gangetic valley proper, with its uninterrupted 

 Low ground. 



plains ; and the region of lower Bundelcund, 



which is little raised above the plains, and where the crystalline rocks are 



never far from the surface, often showing themselves above the general 



level in high, narrow, vertical ribs of quartz, continuous for several 



miles, — or as abrupt hummocks of coarse syenitic granite. This area of 



crystalline rocks forms as it were a great bay in the table land, of which 



Tirliowan, in the Banda district, is the eastern promontory and the 



Gwalior hills the western, its head being on the Dessaun river about 30 



miles north of Saugor. It is the coast of this bay that is to occupy our 



attention. 



The outline of the Vindhyan table land to the east of Saugor shows 



three ledges, descending in a N. E. direction ; to 

 Table land. . . 



the W . the distinctness or these is lost, from the 



twofold cause of a thinning out of some of the beds, and of their 

 becoming confused and covered under the trap formation of the sum- 

 mit level : in the meridian of Saugor an outer scarp is the only 

 one defineable, but it is high, abrupt, and continuous ; the reverse is 

 the case to the E., — the face of the hills S. of the Ganges at Mirzapore 

 is low and broken, while that of the second steppe, (20 miles to the 

 S. W.,) is most marked, as is also that of the Bundair or third ledo-e 

 still further in the same direction. 



This transfer of character between the two outer steppes takes place 

 about the meridian of the falls of the Tons, and is evidently connected 



with the character and position of the rocks. The 

 Drainage peculiar. 



drainage shows well the nature of the change. 



