1842.] Geology of Bundelcund and J ubbulpore. 411 



I had observed on approaching the town from Ramnughur. At Jubbul- 

 pore, we may be said to enter upon the extensive valley of the Nurbudda, 

 the river being distant about four miles. It is a clear mountain stream 

 with a rocky bottom, in width here not much exceeding the Kane, but 

 greatly deeper at the time I crossed it in the month of October. 



The rock of Tetwarra Ghaut, judging from detached pieces, seems to be 

 a species of trap, and lower down the river, I was informed, passes over 

 a formation of primitive limestone. Some blocks of this marble I have 

 seen. It is of a pure white colour and close structure ; and for all the 

 purposes of the statuary might be reckoned not inferior to the celebrated 

 Parian or Carrara. The natives, aware of its excellence as a material for 

 sculpture, employ it in making images of their gods, and various 

 ornamental appendages to their temples. 



Report made by J. Mohl, in the General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of 

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 last months of 1840, and the six first months of 1841, translated from 

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