Brought over, 

 Mahratta tailors, 



„ saddlers, 

 Brahmins of the Smarta and Vaishnavam sects, 

 Jains of the Vaisya sect, 



„ „ Chsetriya sect, . . 



„ „ Suryonsh Chsetriya sect, 

 Jain Upadi, or inferior priest, 



Total, . . 



1842.] Bijapore to Bellary via Kannighirri. 951 



4,425 



250 



50 



500 



15 



25 



25 



1 



5,291 



Besides the above, there is a body of one hundred Mahratta horse and 

 sibundies, maintained by Rastia ; and a floating population of that 

 wandering class of grain merchants, the Brinjaris, with whom the 

 bazar was crowded. The revenue of the jaghire is estimated at about 

 10,000 rupees per annum. At the time I visited the place, Talicota 

 was in charge of Nana Sahib Rastia. Bala Shahib, his elder brother, 

 was engaged in a religious pilgrimage to Gungapur, on the banks of the 

 Bima. 



I observed the limestone to the S. W. of Talicota nearly five miles. 



From Talicota to Mu- About two miles farther in the same direc- 

 dibial. t j on> tne over iyi n g trap occurs in the bed of 



a nullah, a little to the E. of the village of Gonahal, and continues for 

 about a mile, when sandstone, in isomorphous masses, forms the sur- 

 face rock, and is also seen in the bed of a nullah, in which lay angular 

 blocks of both the above-mentioned rocks and fragments of the red 

 pegmatitic stone. Trap prevails between Gonahal and Contogi : it is 

 seen a little to the west of the latter village, overlying the sandstone in 

 the bed of a nullah. The latter rock is here observed to separate into 

 contorted laminar flakes of a reddish hue and friable structure near the 

 line of junction : the former is earthy in texture, as before observed. A 

 few feet from the junction, the sandstone resumes its usual texture and 

 colour. Between the flakes calcareous incrustations have taken place. 

 Between Contogi and Mudibhal, trap and amygdaloid are the surface 

 rocks. Immediately to the west of the latter place, rises a low ridge 

 of finely grained sandstone, where the quarries for millstones, for which 

 Mudibhal has long been known in this quarter, are situated. The 

 rock lies immediately under a stratum of regur 3 in tabular masses, in- 



