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pure quartz, and disposed in vertical strata. Others have a peculiar 

 striped arrangements in the mass, and in colour, lustre, and compact- 

 ness, are not unlike the limestone of Lohargong. On arriving at Se- 

 horra, I found these two rocks composing a small hill on which the 

 fort or gurree is built. They appear to be primitive blue slate and quartz 

 lying in opposition,* and in almost vertical and very thin strata, each 

 layer not exceeding four inches in breadth. In several of the schistose 

 strata, the stone has metallic lustre, and may with ease be reduced to 

 powder. The quartz shews nothing peculiar ; it lies close on the 

 slate in continuous strata, and veins or thin laminae may be observed 

 intermingling with schistus. It bears, however, but a small proportion 

 to this rock. In some specimens, the slate is striped with variously 

 coloured materials differing in hardness. The town or village of Sehor- 

 ra, where these rocks are met with, is prettily situated on two or three 

 small gradually rising eminences, having a good deal of open grass 

 glade, terminated by mango groves, in such a manner as to give to the 

 whole the air of an English scene. The soil of the district around is 

 of the same black colour as that of Bundelcund, but more clayey. 

 It is extremely fertile, and the appearance of the surface at the time I 

 passed, indicated that great care was bestowed on it by the ryots. For 

 miles to the south and west, not a spot could be perceived which was 

 not cultivated, and laid out in square pieces, with an intervening low 

 mud dyke, similar to the paddy fields of Bengal. Rice too appeared to 

 be a common crop here. 



A few miles from Sehorra, we cross the Hirn, a stream of consi- 

 derable width which falls into the Nerbudda, a little to the westward. 

 The bed is not rocky like the Kane at Kopah, but formed en- 

 tirely of sand without any gravel or pebbles. At a sweet little 

 village named Gosulpore, which rises out of the surrounding miry 

 soil, like an oasis from the desert, we again meet with large masses 

 of the ferruginous concrete. f It is here more decomposed than on 

 the hill above Bellary, and the ground on which the village stands, 

 has evidently been formed from its debris. The natives, I was 

 told, reduce the rock to the metallic state, and in the neighbouring 

 town of Punnahghur work it very extensively ; but not being aware of 



* Sp. 20. f Sp. 22, 23. 





