900 March from Brimhan Ghat to Umurkuntuk, [No. 105. 



some 40 or 50 feet, the sides of which had hexagonal basaltic columns ; 

 from this nulla to camp the whole distance was strewed with the shell 

 breccia in indurated clay No. 95, 96. The village small, and a dirty looking 

 tank; it is situated immediately on the verge of the range. 



Kyrrha, seven miles. The ghat commences on passing the tank, and is a 

 very bad, steep, stony descent for about a mile, all large trap boulders, 

 mixed with some travertin No. 97, after which the real difficulty of the 

 ghatee is passed ; then follows an inclined plane all limestone No. 98, and 

 a descent of the same formation, when the level plain is attained ; from the 

 tank to this is about 3 miles, the road good, strewed with boulders of shell 

 breccia No. 99 ; cross the Bysaha nulla, sandstone No. 100, and the bed of 

 the next, the Bygun, was limestone No. 101 ; the village of Kyrrha is on a 

 sandstone eminence No. 102, 103, 104, 105; with No. 104, chukies (stone 

 hand-mills) are made here. 



Singpoor, six and a half miles. On leaving camp the Surpa nulla is crossed, 

 the bed of which is a white very friable sandstone, the road good, some tri- 

 fling nuUas passed, all sandstone similar to that of the Surpa. In one or 

 two places trap was seen overlying the sandstone ; shortly before getting 

 to our ground, the sandstone deepens much in colour, specimens No. 105, 

 106 being reddish. At this village are seen some fine sculpture brought, 

 we were told, from Urjollee, a kos or two distant; the temple from which 

 they were procured must have been a magnificent one. There are the 

 remains of an old palace here, the pillars of which came from that place. 



Sohagpoor, nine and a half miles. A good road the whole way, sandstone, no 

 village seen, chiefly sal forest, but never very thick or the trees large, as 

 you approach, more open ; the fort a small ghurree, town small, but there 

 are remains of former size and grandeur by the numerous tanks, remains 

 of temples, buildings, &c. One old temple is finely sculptured in the style 

 of the Oodeypoor one north of Bhilsa; adjoining is a square Koond sacred 

 to Mahadeo, and at the distance of a quarter of a mile an eminence on which 

 lie very extensive ruins of a temple ; a large image of Boudh was almost the 

 only distinguishable piece of sculpture left. The natives assigned the name 

 of some Rakhshus to this giant, which I have forgotten. 



Putpura nulla, eleven miles ; good road, but a very uninteresting coun- 

 try, few villages or signs of cultivation ; the soil is sandstone, beds of the 

 NuUas as at Kyrrha No. 105; passed the shoulder of ahiU trap, when the 

 hills close in, the great Mekul range to the south, and a low range in front, 

 and to the right water very near the surface. 



Palee, ten miles. On leaving camp enter rather thick jungle, road hilly 

 and stony, cross a ridge called Moorcha Pahar, sandstone No. 108, so 

 named from having the appearance of an entrenchment, then hilly ground 



