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Near where the old town of Gurra stands, the hilly area of the 

 granite is ahout two miles wide, and a building now in ruins, called the 

 Muddun Mehal (Fig. 1) stands on the highest point of this part of the 

 range. The sketch shows the general aspect of the rocks here, which may 



JFig. 1. View of the Muddun Mehal, at the western extremity of the granite hills near 

 Jubbulpur. 



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be taken as typical of that of the granite of the country. From this place 

 the granite may be followed for many miles to the north east, forming a 

 narrow irregular band among the Metamorphic rocks: it is not even 

 quite continuous but sometimes thins out and disappears for a short space, 

 coming to the surface again in the same general direction. This line of 



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