142 Mr. Fraser's Jouniey from Delhi lo Bombay. 



ever my obsevations may amount to^ will form the basis of another notice^ lo 

 accompany the specimens from that part of India, when they shall be arranged 

 and presented to the Geological Society. 



Tiie country in the vicinity of Delhi, both above and below it, upon the 

 Jumna's banks, and in the Doab * opposite, varies little, if at all, from other 

 parts of the valley of Hindoostan ; but the site of all former capitals of this 

 sovereignty, as well as of the present city, is upon a low and rocky ridge of 

 hills, which ends almost immediately beyond, upon the river bank : nor is 

 there, as far as I am aware, any mass of rock, certainly none of any mag- 

 nitude or importance, found at this point on the East bank of the Jumna. 



This point appears to be the termination, as far as can be seen above the 

 surface, of a range of primitive mountains, connected if not visibly continuous 

 with all those that intersect, and in many parts entirely occupy, the country 

 to the north and west of the Chumbul, and which probably may be found in 

 different parts of the whole peninsula to the southward, as far even as Cape 

 Commorin. Whether the connexion may not be also traced northward, to the 

 Himalaya Mountains, is a point which does not come within the range of this 

 confined notice. 



The hills at Delhi are but a ridge, not exceeding one to two miles in breadth, 

 nor any where more than a hundred to a hundred-and-thirty feet high. Ta- 

 king thence a southern direction, they spread out in breadth ; and increasing 

 in tile number of ridges, pass into what is commonly called the Mewat 

 Country; no where exceeding a thousand feet in height, and generally ran- 

 ging from three to seven hundred. The height of the hills increases to the 

 southward; and the fort of Alwur is situated upon the highest point, which 

 may possibly reacli 1200 feet. Towards tlie west and north-west from the 

 vicinity of Delhi, small ridges and insulated peaks run out as far as the south- 

 ern part of Hurrianuh ; the Hill of Tooham, about sixteen miles to the south of 

 Han.see, being tiie most northern : it is a single and almost bare rock of red 

 Mj,^\, if^cM. granite, extremely hard, and about seven hundred feet high. There are no 



' hills north of this, to the foot of the Himalaya range, nor westward, to the 



Indus. 



From Mewat the hills take a wider spread ; the eastern boundary running 

 nearly in a southern direction, and leaving between it and the Jumna, all the 

 way to the Chumbul, a space of level country which varies in breadth, but 

 is seldom less than forty miles wide. Hills do indeed occur within this space, 



* Duoub in the; PtTsiaii language signifies ^Kowa^cr* : (he term is applied to the tract between 

 the Jiiniiia and Ihc Ganges. — Ed. 



