854 Extracts from Dr. Voysey's Journals. QNo. 155. 



also the inclination of the stratification ; its direction was for the most 

 part East and West as usual. It also contained the usual quartz veins 

 parallel to the stratifications. Nearer the town, and lower down the 

 river, I observed singular masses of hornblende slate, succeeding to, 

 and sometimes mixed with the gneiss. I saw also several veins on the 

 left bank of the Kanhan of a decomposing chlorite schist, the contrac- 

 tions of the gneiss were there also very extraordinary and irregular. 

 The most singular rock is the iron clay, which lies on the gneiss on the 

 river bank ; I was however unable to discover any connection between 

 the two rocks. 



Bundarra, iSth February. — The road as far as Kerbie was over 

 black soil. It then became red, and I observed in my path frequent 

 masses of the red ironstone, but I hesitate yet whether its proper ap- 

 pellation is iron clay ; the usual accompaniment of the red soil ; viz. 

 numerous tanks which were tolerably full, gave indication of the former 

 riches of the country. I shot a teal with beautiful white eyes in one 

 of them. I was yesterday deceived in respect to the situation of the 

 range of peaked hills near Bundarra. In the Wain Gunga, I found 

 pieces of gneiss, and here and there masses of the main rock jutting 

 from beneath the diluvial soil. There are numerous tanks and fine 

 groves of tamarind trees at Bundarra. 



Bundarra, \4th February. — The sungum being more distant than I 

 imagined, I stopped half way at a small hill, on which is a temple dedi- 

 cated to Rama. The rock was gneiss passing into mica slate and 

 clay slate with mica. 



Lacknee, \5th February. — The black soil, entirely disappeared, and 

 in its stead is found that arising from the decomposition of gneiss. 

 The main rock is now and then seen in the beds of rivers and nullahs, 

 but always at considerable depth from the surface. Rice is princi- 

 pally cultivated, and the tanks are very numerous. 



Sackolee, 16 (h February. — The same soil, which allows of very fine 

 roads. For a considerable portion it was very red, and I observed 

 at the side of the road, a great quantity of the iron conglomerate in 

 large masses. It appeared to me closely resembling that of Midnapore. 

 I have before observed, that there is considerable difference between the 

 iron clay found in connexion with basalt, though I believe it to be 

 more apparent than real. 



