102 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF MADURA AND TINNEVELLY DISTRICTS. 



Eameswaram, with the exception of a few statues made of gneiss, the 

 whole of the great gateways and cloisters which 



Eauieswaram temple. i ji • , , ■,•-,, n 



surround the inner temple are built of such 

 sandstones. The fine-grained sandstone, of small hlocks of which the 

 east and west gopuras are built, I did not see in situ, nor did I find out 

 whence it was procured, but the coarser gritty form of which many 

 of the pillars in the cloisters are made, as well as much of the flagging, 

 bears a very striking likeness to the rocks on the Valimukkam spit 

 Quanies at Vallmuk- (P^ge 68) where an immense quantity of quarry- 

 l5:am. iug has been done, and the stone raised shipped 



away. The places left in the rock there are very frequently such just in 

 shape and size as would have been made in quarrying the cloister pillar 

 blocks. Similar quarry remains were noticed in the sandstone " quay " 

 east of Kila Karai, but on a much smaller scale and in an inferior kind 



of rock. 



The fine blocks of gritty calcareous sandstone raised at Vedanattam 

 to the north of Tuticorin are largely used for 

 buildiug in that town. Fine cattle troughs, &c., 

 &e., are also made at the quarries. 



For rough building purposes the Tutikorin people employ large quan- 

 tities of coral rock which is procured from the island to the north of the 

 lighthouse. 



The fine cream-coloured or brownish calcareous sandstone or grits 

 obtained at Panamparai on the south-western side 

 At anampaiai. ^^ ^^^ great Megnauapuram church has been em- 



ployed in the construction of the great temple at Tirucheudur already 

 referred to, and also in the building of the stately gothic church designed 

 and erected at Megnauapuram by the late Revd. J. Thomas of the 

 Church Missionary Society. The same quarry is now furnishing very 

 fine stones for tbe rebuilding of the church at Mudalur by the Revd. 

 H. B. Norman of the S. P. G. 



When completed, this will be the third large gothic church built in 

 this quarter, the second being the fine church built at Idduyangudi by 

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