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Extracts from the late Dr. Voysey's Journals, when attached to the 

 Trigonometrical Survey in Southern and Central India. 



[The Editors have given the presefnt extract, though the last in point of date, the first 

 place, not only from its crossing a tract of country quite unknown, but moreover from 

 its being the volume of the Journal which closes the lamented Voysey's career; this 

 being the journey on which he died on his route from the left bank of the Subunreeka 

 to Calcutta, being brought dead in his palkee to the ghat of Howrah, in a state which 

 shewed that he must have died nearly twenty-four hours previously ! The date of the 

 commencement of his fever is noted in his Journal. The specimens collected up to his 

 death are in the Museum.— Eds.] 



Mahwilgaon, \Uh February. — The soil is entirely black on the 

 surface all the way from Nagpoor. In the bed of the Nag nuddee, 

 I found a great quantity of white felspar, quartz, calcedony and other 

 minerals usually found in trap, the lower part of the bank consisted 

 of a mixture of sand and clay, a very complete separation being visible 

 between the superincumbent black soil and the red underneath. The 

 surrounding country appears to be very rich, and is tolerably well 

 cultivated. 



Mahoda, 12th February. — Black soil until I reached Omree, when 

 it became sandy and red, but speedily changed again to the black. Near 

 Mahoda I was attracted by the sound of a water-fall in the Kan- 

 han, and immediately descended its bed. It contained gneiss and 

 granite rock in great quantity, the gneiss porphyritic, containing large 

 crystals of white felspar. Its contractions were very much varied, as 



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