1837.] Note on Seoni Geology. 1091 



16. Patalake chatapa cheveru riya gabhathabhe pati pa . yati panatanusata .... 

 raja . . riya la machhinen cha choyatha agisati katariyam napddachhati agama rdja 

 sava tha rdjd saresera .... ma rdjd pasato suti te apa dha ji da .... lanoni. 



17. Vi ronovise kusalo sava pdsanda piijano (8) chha (3) k&ruh&ra 

 (3).. pati patalakivahani bdlevdkadharagata chano ghavata chako r&jasanka lavind 

 ravato mahavijaya rdjd khdravela sandara. 



VIII. — Memorandum regarding specimens from Seoni Chupara, PI. LVI. 

 By D. W. McLeod, Esq. 

 The accompanying minerals were collected by me during a tour 

 through the district, wherever I met with projecting rocks or veins ; 

 but not being sufficient geologist accurately to identify them all, I 

 have contented myself with attaching numbers to each, corresponding 

 with those on the accompanying sketch map, so that the site of each 

 may he identified. 



The greater portion of the district forms a part of the Sutpara range 

 up to its junction with the Vindhya at the source of the Nerbudda, 

 and its character in this part would appear to be a basis of primitive 

 rock (projecting to the southward where it forms cliffs, in many places 

 of several hundred feet in height), overlaid by basalt, and that again 

 very frequently by laterite. The magnesian limestone appears in 

 some parts at the surface in veins of considerable magnitude ; and 

 other rocks in various parts may doubtless be found intersecting the 

 basalt; but the three descriptions of rock aboi^e noted undoubtedly 

 form the main features of the entire tract. 



The southern purgunnahs of the district lying below the cliffs allud- 

 ed to above, are formed I believe, entirely of the detritus from the 

 primitive ranges, being a silicious clay increasing in richness in pro- 

 portion to its remoteness from the cliffs and vicinity to the Maya Gangd 

 river; below the upper soils, clays and limes of different characters 

 occur, and veins of laterite and other rocks occasionally make their 

 appearance at the surface, and in one part an apparently very rich 

 vein of black iron ore (mistaken by the natives for antimony, and 

 called by them SitrmaJ, of which a specimen will be found amongst the 

 accompanying. 



The principal character of the district above the Ghats is that of 

 table land, intersected by numerous ranges of hills, and abrupt ascents 

 and descents. The abundance of moisture in the more eastern portion 

 is perhaps its most remarkable feature, and this characteristic appears 

 to become more fully developed in proportion as the elevation increases 

 until we reach the highest point of all Amarkantak, in the vicinity of 

 which the Lad, Mahdnadi, and Nerbudda, flowing north, west, and 



