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no greater strength than the ordinary second class ghurries of S. India. 

 It contains two temples, one dedicated to Iswara and his consort Par- 

 vati, and the other to Angini Dewi. There are two others in the Pet- 

 tah, to Angini and Buswunt. The staple articles of cultivation are rice 

 and raggy. 



Pallium. The road from Kensum Ooscotta into Mysore, lies over 

 an undulating country, on the surface of which the dwarf thorn and aloe 

 begin to be more thickly sprinkled than nearer the ghauts. Gneiss still 

 outcrops in mammillary masses from a reddish alluvial soil. Here is a 

 Jain temple to Pursonath, and an old pagoda to Jinadur. There are 

 several Jain families still residing here. Some miles to the N. is the 

 famous ancient capital of Hallibede, where there are some Jain buslis. 

 Most of the inscriptions I have had copied. 



Hassan and Gram. Gneiss and hornblende schist are still the prevalent 

 rocks. Talc slate with layers of a fine greenish potstone interstratified 

 also occurs, of which the elaborately carved walls of the temple to 

 Keysu Dev, are constructed. At Hassan there is a large fort repaired 

 by Hyder and Tippoo, with a glacis, covered way, dry ditch, and a sort of 

 fausse braye ; also a Jain temple to Pursonath. Gram is also defended 

 by a fort of no strength, and of considerable antiquity : it is quadran- 

 gular, and has square towers connected with a high stone curtain and 

 a mud parapet, the whole surrounded by a dry ditch. It occupies 

 a slight ascent. The mica in the gneiss near Gram is sometimes 

 replaced by talc, and passes into protogine. 



My attention in this part of Mysore was often attracted by heaps of 

 stones near the road side to which, as I have seen in Catholic countries 

 on spots where murders have occurred, the passers-by each added a 

 stone. From some of these, half-eaten portions of the human frame 

 often protruded, dragged forth by the hyaenas or jackals. On enquiry 

 I found they were the remains of the cultivating caste, called the 

 Wokeligars, who, if they happen to die of a sort of leprosy called "Kor" 

 or Thun. are not suffered by the Brahmins to be buried below the 

 ground in the ordinary way, " lest no rain should fall in the land" ! 



Chinrayapatam. After exploring the Corundum pits of Golushully, 

 &c. (described in the Journal Royal Asiatic Society, No. XIV. p. 219) 

 I passed through Kulkairy to Chinrayapatam, and thence by the Corun- 

 dum localities of Appanhully and Barkenhully to Hirasaye, Cudhully, 

 and Belloor to Ootradroog, granite, protogine, gneiss, talcose, and horn- 



