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



was shot by Captain Tebbs, 33rd Regiment of Native Infantry, a pair 

 of the horn-bills (first seen in the dense jungle on the banks of the river 

 near Ramnuggur,) and designated in Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, as Buceros 

 Malabaricusj the bird was also seen at Umerkuntuk, but I am not aware 

 of its being met with in any other part of these territories. 



Our next march was near Bichia to the Khoolar nulla, fourteen miles, 

 the first two miles being the same primitive formation, granite and mas- 

 sive quartz, when we ascended a small ghatee of trap boulders, passing 

 over a plain, little jungle, and scarcely any cultivation ; about 9 a gradual 

 descent to the Mutyaree nulla, the bed compact basalt ; leaving a village, 

 Oomurwaree, to the right; more cultivation about. From here to the 

 Khoolar nulla small trap hills are crossed of the same formation. 



The next was Motee nulla, 16 miles; up to the Dutla nulla the forma- 

 tion was the same basaltic one, but in the bed of this nulla granite same as 

 No. 21, at Unjoonea. The soil now changes to a siliceous one, with large 

 masses of white quartz jutting out on a bleak open plain, singularly devoid 

 of the traces of man in the shape of cultivation or habitation. About eight 

 miles a fine pebbly stream with well wooded banks is passed. The Hul- 

 lo wn, (which joins the Boornerh near the village of Ghooghree, on the di- 

 rect road from Mundlah to Ramgurh,) about five miles more, over grass 

 plains approach the gorge of hills, and the jungle becomes more dense ; as- 

 cend a small ghatee, the Jogeegoopha, the hills on each side rising above, 

 the formation is limestone No. 25 capped with trap. On descending to- 

 wards the Motee nulla, it again becomes massive quartz. In this nulla we 

 first observed the laterite No. 26, 27, 28, 29 (so extensive a component of 

 the Mikul hills) iron ore No. 29, chert No. 30, indurated iron clay No. 31, 

 sandstone No. 32, indurated clay and calcedony No. 33. 



In this and the preceding march, the sal tree, in large clumps, gives the 

 country a very peculiar appearance, and trees of any other kind are not 

 general. 



Rajadhar 14 miles, road good, undulated country, grass plains with clumps 

 of the sal, formation laterite, with conical hills of trap up to Munglee, 

 about which are some small Goandee villages, and cultivation. Soon after 

 this the road lies between hills thickly wooded, and high grass ; pass 

 through a defile, the Sukra ghatee, in which is limestone No. 34, intersected 

 by veins nearly vertical. No. 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. On emerging from this, 

 there is a considerable open space up to Rajadhar on the Phene nulla, 

 which is situated at the edge of a very dense jungle and hills. The bed of 

 this nulla is chiefly large boulders of laterite, and a greenstone No. 40. 



Boorla, about 15 miles by the footpath, and about 19 by the road 

 which the cattle and baggage went. 



