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4th. The whole of the district, with the exceptions below mentioned, 

 forms part of the conquered provinces, having been obtained from the 

 Peshwa in 1804, A. D., and brought under the Regulations by Regula- 

 tion IV. of 1804. Pergannah Kalinjar was taken from the Chaubehs 

 in 1812, and an equivalent given from Pergannahs Bhitri, Kunhas 

 and Budausa (vide Regulation XXII. of 1812) ; Pergannah Khundeh 

 was added to the district by Regulation II. of 1818, being ceded by 

 Nana Govind Rao. 



5th. The elevations of the trigonometrical stations in or adjoining 

 the district above the sea as determined by the Grand Trigonometrical 

 Survey are as follow. — 



Kanakhera, 473.7 feet above sea Kachar, 1519.6 feet above sea 

 level. level. 



Kartar, 1,179.8 do. do. Lalapur, 825.9 do. do. 



Peprendi, 494.9 do. do. Pabhasa, 610.5 do. do. 



Seonda, 908.6 do. do. 



6th. The geological structure of the district is very interesting, and 

 merits a much fuller elucidation than I have the means of giving. 

 There are two distinct characters of country, the plains and the table- 

 land above the first range of hills or Patha. The plains are not of the 

 extreme uniformity exhibited in the greater part of the Upper Pro- 

 vinces ; they are not only similarly broken by deep ravines, running to 

 the principal rivers, but diversified with isolated hills generally of gra- 

 nite but occasionally of syenite or quartz, either white or tinged of a 

 deep reddish brown by ferruginous matter. The general appearance of 

 the plains is strikingly similar to part of the Siberian steppe as describ- 

 ed by Humboldt in his Asie Centrale : — and doubtless the origin of our 

 granitic hills is similar. The granite is exceedingly liable to disintegra- 

 tion into large masses, so as to present to the eye a confused congeries 

 of boulders of all sizes, sometimes in concentric segments of circles, and 

 sometimes in straight parallel lines. The tendency of these masses is 

 to split in fixed directions, not unfrequently so as to leave large surfaces 

 exposed of almost perfect flatness ; from this tendency it appears to me 

 that the practice of splitting granite into blocks for building, by the 

 simple agency of fire and water, as used in the south of India, might be 

 advantageously tried here. The granite is much traversed by veins of 

 quartz of every degree of thickness from a line to several yards, and 



