998 Notes, chiefly Geological, across the Peninsula [No. 156. 



separating the Beder and Calliany laterite cliffs : they present the usual 

 appearances of vallies of denudation, and in many places the trap and 

 amygdaloid underlying the laterite have been exposed. 



At Murbi the laterite table land of Calliany is descended to a terrace 

 or step of comparatively level land, where the trap and its associated 

 wacke, amygdaloids and kunker, are the only rocks met with. 

 A little N. of Gulburgah another terrace formed by these rocks, is 

 descended to the still lower level on which the city stands in the 

 valley of the Bhima, about 12 or 14 miles to the N. of the present 

 channel of this fine river. About 10 miles S. of the city, beds of 

 limestone outcrop from the trap between the villages of Nundipoor 

 and Sinnoor, and continue forming the bed of the Bhima at Firozabad, 

 dipping slightly towards the S. W. The limestone continues on the op- 

 posite or S. bank of the river about 4 miles, a little to the N. E. of the 

 village of Gownully, where it is again overlaid by the trap. {Plate 

 Diagram No. III.) is a rough section from the table land of Calliany 

 to the S. bank of the Bhima, comprehending a tract of land about 50 

 miles N. and S. exhibiting extensive denudation ; both laterite and trap 

 having been stripped off the subjacent limestone exposed in the valley 

 of the Bhima. On the South side of the valley the trap re-appears, 

 but the softer laterite has been entirely swept away* 



a j ., 'A Rolled and waterworn fragments of the 



„ r> m r • I trap occur in, and on, the soil and gravel 



B. B. I rap once forming ^ r D 



, /overlying the limestone, at a distance of two 



a continuous sheet. I J ° 



^ T . \or three miles from the present channel of 



C. Limestone. 1 r 



-'the river, and far above the reach of its 



highest floods. The traces have all the appearance of having been 

 formed by the action of water. 



Iron sine/ ting at Murbi. 



It must not be omitted to mention that at Murbi, near the edge 

 of the Calliany table land, and the adjacent village of Boghirry, the more 

 ferruginous nodules occurring in the laterite are collected, roasted, 

 coarsely pounded, and smelted. The furnace at Murbi is a small one, 

 and capable of smelting about one Kucha maund of 12 seers per 

 diem. The ore is subjected three times to the action of the fire ; twice 

 to reduce it and cleanse it from dross by beating the half molten mass 



