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



At present the pools are all stagnant, and I did not observe any stream 

 or motion in the water to direct one. The name of the village on the 

 river bank is Kurwa, there is a temple, whose size shews, it was not 

 always in its present ruined state. 



Beliagurh, 5th March. — Clay slate like that of Kotinghy in the 

 beds of nullahs, sometimes in the road, and is succeeded by 

 a reddish sandstone. And I have little doubt that were it not 

 for the abrupt disappearance under the brown diluvial soil, that I 

 should be able to observe the same gradual changes I have noticed 

 in the Dekkan. At a village called Kosoola, which stands on a hill of 

 sandstone, the rock was in large masses, and rather slaty, like that at 

 Raupoor ; I am convinced that the rocks of this formation are co- 

 temporaneous with and prior to the granite. Nullahs have now com- 

 menced making their appearance since my approach to the hills. I 

 shall cross the outgoing of the range to-morrow. At Poorgaon, Dallia- 

 puhar, a remarkable peak, and Sonakani, bore, the former North and 

 the latter South. 



Tanreepar, 6th March. — I crossed the Pass of Silmar, a little 

 beyond Jora Devi, the ascent is trifling, the road good. At Jora 

 Devi the red granular sandstone. In the Pass, sandstone conglo- 

 merate immediately followed by the clay slate and shelly limestone. 

 At Belaipoor the rocks had a most remarkably mottled appearance, 

 arising from large masses of calcareous clay slate enveloped in a paste 

 of quartz, in grains containing small pieces of the same rock ; very few 

 of the masses seem much rounded by attrition. The space occupied by 

 the rocks was about a furlong square. At a short distance appeared 

 the usual sandstone followed by the calcareous clay slate. The Pass 

 which I crossed to-day is in the range of hills whence I first got sight 

 of Bhyesah, and as I have been travelling N. E. and E. their course 

 is nearly S. W. and N. E. ; the intimate resemblance in outline and 

 structure, with the sandstone hills of the same formation. 



I observed no rocks until I reached Sarunghur, where large masses 

 of sandstone were exposed. 



Laindurrah, 8th March. — Sandstone appears to be the prevail- 

 ing rock, however, at the top of the Pass the calcareous clay slate 

 seems most to abound. In the beds of nullahs, the horizontal clay 

 slate is almost invariably seen. It is, generally speaking, the lower- 



