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the right bank, all trap formation, roa4 stony from boulders; alDout 

 six miles crossed the Putwara nulla, where veins of wacke with feldspar 

 No. 12 and feldspar No. 13 occur; after this the road is undulated, a 

 series of ascents and descents through rather a dense tree jungle until 

 you again approach and recross the river, the bed of which is trap, in- 

 tersected in some places with veins of calcareous spar wacke No. 15, 16. 



Ramnuggur in the days of the Gound Rajas, was a place of note. 

 There is still an old palace of four stories, built by Hirdee Sah some 

 200 years ago, and half a mile off one by his Dewan, little of which re- 

 mains beyond the walls, but of the palace, situated on the bank of the 

 river, and looking up a long reach of it, little decay has taken place beyond 

 what is to be expected from neglect and desertion. 



The general feature is a square with an inner court, in the centre of 

 which was a Tanka* (from whence I presume we got our tank) and 

 garden. The whole of the rooms, especially of the lower floor, are occu- 

 pied by the villagers, and a considerable number of families have found 

 habitations therein. The village is now insignificant, and there are but 

 very few remains of its former state, when kings held their court. In 

 the village, and at the eastern side of the court of an old temple of 

 Mahadeo is the stone on which, in Sanscrit characters, is graven the 

 list of the sovereigns from Jadoo Rae, Sumbut 415, as detailed by Major 

 Sleeman in the Asiatic Journal for August 1837. On leaving Ramnuggur 

 we h<§,d to make a detour to the south, in order to get again into the 

 direct road from Mundlah. The road is bad and stony ; we passed up a 

 defile, and crossed over a hill called Doondooh of trap formation. The ascent 

 was easy, but the descent steep and stony, on which you emerge into an 

 open and extensive plain; at the bottom of the Ghatee cross a small 

 nulla, in which is found granite No. 17; a mile or two further is the Datta 

 nulla, near the village of Lutooa. From this the specimens of limestone 

 No. 18, 19, were procured, and from this locality lime for the buildings at 

 Ramnuggur was made ; about 6, cross the Mutyaree river, rather a large 

 stream, which some way down joins the Banjur, which flows into the 

 Nerbudda immediately opposite the Fort at Mundlah. 



The ford of this nulla is composed of granite No. 20 and 21, but about two or 

 three hundred yards further up the river a ridge of compact basalt crosses 

 it, after this the soil changes to a sandy one, the general rock being No. 

 21, also intermixed with gneiss? No. 22, 23, and 24, syenite. At this 

 place, Unjoneea (and where we regained the direct road from Mundlah) 



* I first heard this word used by a native in Betool district ; on asking him if at the top of Bower- 

 gurh there was any spring, he said no, but there was a Tanka or place made of pukka, stones and 

 cement, for holding water. 



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