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been a little misled. It is simply, like Nos. 5 and 6, the ordinary mounted 

 horseman with outstretched arm to the left, aud fillets depending from 

 the head. The only coin in tolerable preservation is No. 1. 



Report on Productions and Manufactures in the district of Hanum- 

 koondah, in the dominion of H. H. the Nizam of Hyderabad. By 

 A. M. Walker Esq. m. d., Assistant Surgeon. Communicated 

 from the Political Secretariat 9 Government of India. 



On the 1 2th instant, I had the honor of reporting my arrival at 

 Hunumkoondah, since that time I have been employed in observing 

 •and noting the most important facts in reference to the object for which 

 I am employed, and particularly in making inquiries respecting the 

 production and manufactures in this part of the Nizam's dominions. 

 As far as I could, I have trusted little to mere oral information, but 

 have endeavoured to authenticate by actual observation, whatever appeared 

 ito me interesting or useful in nature or in art. 



The face of the country in this neighbourhood presents a striking 

 similarity to that in the vicinity of Hyderabad. Here are the same 

 rounded, dark colored, herbless eminences, solitary, or in groups of con- 

 siderable range, rising to the height of three or four hundred feet with 

 the same ruinous appearance of the lower hills, and the fantastic piling 

 of one boulder of rock on another. 



The tank, with its mound of earth or masonry and the sheet of verdure 

 which it nourishes and maintains, serve to complete the resemblance of 

 general form and outline, nor does a more minute examination detect 

 many decrepancies. The surface rock, throughout, is granite, usually of 

 a greyish colour, but varying from a dingey white to a reddish and more 

 rarely to a blackish hue, according to the colour and predominance of 

 each of its constituent parts, quartz, felspar and hornblende. Where 

 quartz is prevalent, the rock is close grained and compact, with little 

 tendency to wear, while on the other hand the most superficial examina- 

 tion will shew that the excess of the two last, and more particularly of 

 the felspar, is the certain cause of decav. 



In one locality in the village of Nagw r azum, five miles to the north of 

 this, so abundant is the hornblende and felspar, to the exclusion of quartz 

 in several specimens of the rocks, that they might be called sienitic 



