890 March from Brimhan Ghat to Umurkuntuk. [No. 105. 



At Beerkherie, the Shair river is crossed, its bed compact basalt, and the 

 road lies through rich black soil up to Burheyta, where it changes to sand- 

 stone. This now insignificant village has been the site of a large city, and 

 extensive vestiges of a fort, palace, temples, buolies, tanks, and gardens, 

 are yet to be traced. The temples are generally Boudhist, or belonging to 

 that sera, and five large images of compact basalt, three of which are stand- 

 ing, and two in a sitting posture, have been ignorantly assigned by the na- 

 tives of this place to the five Pandoo brothers— Dhurum, Bheem, Urjoon, 

 Sahdes, and Nukool. 



Low sandstone hills, varying from a few feet to a couple of hundred, co- 

 vered with thin jungle, is the characteristic of the country, with vallies of 

 more or less extent of decomposed trap ; about three miles east, near Nan- 

 deea, is a hill of quartzose pebbles ; about 100 feet up is a deposit of steatite 

 No. 1 , called by the natives Gora Pan, and largely exported ; in contact with 

 it lie the specimens Nos. 2 and 3. 



At Sreenuggur, the Omar nuddee, the bed of which is composed of the 

 schist No. 4 and 5, and from a hill adjacent the limestone No. 6 is procur- 

 ed. The next five miles is a similar siliceous formation as that from Bur- 

 heyta to Sreenuggur, when you come to trap boulders, making the road 

 more or less stony and unpleasant. About three miles short of Dhooma, the 

 road winds up a steep ghatee of compact basalt, at the top of which is an 

 undulated table land of considerable extent. From this to Jhiria, where 

 this table land is again descended, the country is of the uniform character 

 found in trap formation; at Kuhanee, jasper and quartz No. 7, amygda- 

 loid No. 8, and travertin No. 9. The beds of the NuUas are compact basalt ; 

 the only exception seen was at Pindraee, where the Thanwur Nulla (a fee- 

 der of the Wyn Gunga and Godavery,) is crossed, at which the limestone 

 No. 10, crops out on its left bank. 



At the bottom of the Jhiria Ghattee, the descent of which is neither 

 so long or so steep as that ascending to Dhooma, boulders of indurated 

 red clay, No. 11, are met with. The remainder up to Mundlah is a well 

 cultivated plain. The ford of the Nerbudda is compact basalt. No. 14, 

 and this specimen is a type of the formation wherever found in these 

 territories. 



Mundlah has been a place of note, but since General Marshall dis- 

 mantled the Fort in 1818, the town has gone to decay, and is now 

 but an insignificant village. The river being full here from bank to 

 bank, 326 yards, and totally unfordable from hence to Ramnuggur, (a 

 distance of twelve miles) has a very picturesque appearance, aided much 

 by the ghats and temples along its right bank, and the mouldering 

 battlements and bastions of the fort. From this we proceeded along 



