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are sandstone No. 131 ; soon after cross the Muchrar nulla (?) No. 132, and 

 pass between two conspicuous conical hills of trap to the Kirchola nulla, to 

 the right or north of which is a Koond, where an annual fair is held ; it 

 derives its sanctity from the austerities practised by Purutkal, a son of 

 Brahma. In days of yore the village is said to have been a very considerable 

 one. Our ground was distant about a mile, on a sandstone eminence, 

 with a large tank, the village a good sized one ; this and the last march 

 both in the Rewah territory. 



About two miles in a northerly direction crossing a ridge of— ? No. 

 133; there is an extremely picturesque cascade of the Muchrar nulla over 

 a sandstone rock, with veins on the upper part of indurated clay, as per 

 specimens No. 134, 135, 136, 137. 



Khuntera, near the Mahanuddee river, eight miles. The course of this 

 march lay considerably to the south of west ; as at Koureea a very conspi- 

 cuous peak called Bhangraj is rounded, road good, and chiefly through culti- 

 vation ; about six miles crossed the Mahanuddee a considerable river, its 

 banks are sandstone No. 138, and its bed rolled boulders of trap. The 

 soil was decomposed trap, and the small hills about the same. 



Dheemurkherie, thirteen miles. The road on passing Khuntera lies through 

 jungle not very thick, and chiefly between two low ranges, the formation of 

 which is limestone No. 139. The Kirha nulla is crossed three or four times, 

 after which a ridge of the hills called Chiraebhar is passed over, of the same 

 formation, and so continues up to the Kukraha nulla. From thence the road 

 is fine cultivated plain of black soil, with trap hills about ; Khoombhee 

 about nine miles. Road through fine cultivated land, with large villages up 

 to the ravines, and small hills on the banks of the Heron which arelaterite ; 

 at this point terminates my notes on the marches. 



Before concluding, I may make some general remarks on the geological 

 features of the Mekul hills, three sides of which we had an opportunity of 

 examining. 



On passing along the south face, after descending the Rajadhar ghat, we 

 find that limestone is the predominant rock, all the beds of the nuUas 

 and the lower part of the range up to Kuttame being so, and from thence 

 to the foot of the Jogee ghat, granite, syenite, and gneiss, characterized 

 also by an extreme dense forest jungle, the trees of which, especially 

 sal, are many of them magnificent. On the other, or northern face, with 

 exception of some limestone at the last descent of the Purey ghat, the 

 prevailing rock of the Sohagpoor plains is sandstone, some trap occa- 

 sionally shewing itself in beds of nuUas, and small conical hills rising out 

 of the plain. The jungle on this side is never dense, and the trees com- 

 paratively stunted. The upper part of the range is uniformly basalt, capped 



