472 Account of the Golden Ore found [Sept. 



On the 7th, moved to Shapiir, examined the ground at several 

 places in the interval ; stratum as before ; found it everywhere equally 

 impregnated. On the same evening, visited the banks of the river 

 (about two miles east from Shapur) with equal success, noticed a bed 

 of white calcareous stones (the common under-stratum of the metal- 

 lic earth) crossing the river from bank to bank where I stood. 



On the 8th, moved to Manigatta, close north of which place the 

 range of small hills resumes ; found gold at every place which I examin- 

 ed in the interval, vbut evidently decreasing in point of quantity. 

 Strata as before. 



On the 9th, examined the course of the river which crosses the 

 impregnated tract close north of Manigatta, and touches the south 

 extremity of the small hills north of it. Made trial of the soil, and 

 more especially of the highest earth collected at the surface within reach 

 of the stream for upwards of two miles west of the hills, and gave up 

 the pursuit when still obtaining a few particles of gold from the earth 

 taken at random within reach of the course of its water. 



On the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th, examined the tract about the 

 Manigatta, Wullur and Yeldur Hills ; found it every where (though ex- 

 tremely thinly), impregnated with gold, the upper stratum being gene- 

 rally composed of a deep, brown earth, and succeeded by a livid-flesh- 

 colored calcareous earth at some places, and particularly about Yeldur, 

 changing to a beautiful pink color. 



On the 15th, 16th, and 19th, examined successfully the cluster of 

 small hills which lay east of Randur Papanpilly. These small eminen- 

 ces terminate, to the northward, the frequently interrupted range which 

 has been the subject of the present investigation, and were the win- 

 ning goal I had kept in view ever since I began this second inquiry. Hav- 

 ing however taken notice of a small hill lying about seven miles due east 

 of these, near Ramasandra, and apparently of th*e same description ; on 

 the 26th I examined the stratum both in the interval and about it, and 

 found the earth every where impregnated with gold : having thus tra- 

 ced it uninterrupted right across this extensive pergunnah, and being 

 precluded of any farther investigation by the chain of large hills which 

 lay north of Ramasandra, and are connected with the eastern ghats 

 north east of Panganur. 



The country north of the Randur Papanpilly hills loses altogether 

 its ardent and ungratifying appearance, it exhibits an extensive plain, 

 beautifully variegated with cultivated fields, tanks, and mango groves ; 

 a scenery very seldom to be met with near the golden tract, which is 

 almost every where covered with a scanty, unthriving jungle, the soil 

 being supposed by the natives to contain certain foul substances inimi- 



