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shallow pools, which were more general here than in the preceding 

 district. 



After fording the Kane, here about hundred feet wide, we reach 

 the village of Kopah, and enter directly on the range of hills form- 

 ing the southern enclosure to the Lohargong basin. These are 

 of various heights, but though less striking in their aspect than the 

 range of the opposite side, they often afford the most beautiful and ro- 

 mantic prospects. They are entirely composed of sandstone of the 

 same general characters as that so often alluded to. I picked up some 

 specimens with dendritic impressions on the surface,* and occasionally 

 found a mass of a different shade of red marked with white dots,f but 

 these varieties seemed to be quite accidental. The strata were horizon- 

 tally disposed, with the exception of one or two points, where they shew- 

 ed considerable dip. Many ferruginous pebbles are met with, which ap- 

 pear to contain a larger proportion of iron than the gravel at Punnah. 

 They are of the same essential characters, however, and only differ in 

 that particular in being rather larger. On the hill immediately above 

 Bellary, they are found united together in great masses, exceedingly 

 compact, and apparently quite indestructible by the operation of the ele- 

 ments. From Kopah to Bisseinee is a distance of eighteen miles ; from 

 Bisseinee to Jyenuggur ten or twelve ; and from this last place to 

 Bellary as much more. The whole of this tract is hilly, and presents 

 nearly the same general features throughout. We cross many clear 

 running streams with rocky beds, ascend and descend moderate eleva- 

 tions, and between these, occasionally pass over a grassy plain. Around 

 Jyenuggur the country is cultivated, and a patch of corn may now 

 and then be met with in the early part of the route from Kopah, 

 but with these exceptions, it is a continued jungle all the way to Bellary. 

 On descending to this plain, the country again opens to the view, and 

 a large plain with trees scattered thinly over it is seen extending in 

 all directions. Having travelled by night from Bellary to the next 

 stage, Koreah, I could not observe the appearance of the intermediate 

 country, which was nearly as flat as the low country in Bundelcund. 

 Between Koreah and the town of Sehorra, we find a new formation al- 

 together, consisting principally of quartz. Some of the rocks are 



* No. 18. f No. 19. 



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