94 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF MADURA AND TINNEVELLY DISTRICTS. 



siouaiy station (S. P. G.) at Sawyerpuram, is like the Kuttankuli teri 



in a wasting condition. It is of considerable in- 

 Sawyerpvu-am teri. , i p , , i , • , 



terest, however, rroni the tact that it contains 



proof of the residence of pre-historic man in that quai-ter. On the 



southern side of the centre of the teri is a hard 



Find of cbert cores. i i ,i i p 



ioamy surxace exposed by the removal or some 



15 or 16 feet of the blown sand. On this surface I had the good fortune 



to find numerous small cores and flakes of a reddish chert quite foreign to 



these parts, and wdth them fragments of hurnt pottery showing a distinct 



pattern. A few flakes of limpid quartz were also found. The cores are 



of the same pattern as those found near hy Jabalpur and described by 



Su- Charles Lyell. This teri is highly ferruginous. 



A considerable spread of quite low hillocks of deep red sandy loam is 

 traversed by the road from Palamcotta to Tuticorin, after crossing the 

 small Madagiri river. 



To the north-west of Tuticorin the road to Ettiapuram passes 

 throuo-h a tract of low wavy mounds of loamy red soil which have a 

 rather teri4ike aspect. 



North of the Malletar Odai or Veddanattam river the line of teris 

 rends north-eastward and continues more or less parallel to the coast to 

 its further end. 



The KoUatur and the western part of the Melmandai (Mailmuntha) 

 Kollatur aud Melmau- ^^''^^^ though quite unmistakable in colour, are 

 dai teris. generally very low and greatly overgrown with 



thorny scrub jungle. The north-eastern end of the Melmandai teri 

 is considerably more elevated, and though much jungle covered, 

 there are several wreaths of brilliant red sand showing over the 

 jungle. 



The Sivalpatti (Shevelputty) teri is by much the largest in the 

 Madura country, but is much overgrown with 

 thorny scrub. The south-westerly corner, how- 

 ever, close to the village and crowned by a small American ]\lissiou 

 chapel, forms a conspicuous ridge of very ferruginous red saud, from 

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