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appeared to be sandstone. In the inner cave is a stream of water, the 

 temperature of which was 84°, (that of the free air being 55°,) which 

 may be considered as the mean temperature. 



9th. The great mass of the hills forming the barrier of the tableland 

 consists of sandstone. This lies in layers of very different degrees 

 of thickness and hardness; some being quite friable, others admirably 

 adapted for building, millstones, and many other useful purposes. 

 Most of the highly ornamented temples in the district are built of this 

 stone, which has preserved a wonderful degree of sharpness in the 

 carvings, after centuries of exposure to the weather. The principal 

 quarries are as follows : — Rawli, Gonda, Sidhpur, Mudyan Panwari, 

 Bhownri, Kolgudhya, Buryari, Kulan, Pardawan and Benipur Pali. 

 But small quarries are opened at many other places for local pur- 

 poses, especially millstone making. A quarry of greenstone termed 

 teliya, is situated at Purwa in Pergannah Kimhas, (now transferred 

 to the Chaubehs in lieu of Kalinjar) ; it admits of a very high 

 polish and is much used in making idols, &c, although a similar 

 stone is found in some of our own villages, it is not quarried elsewhere. 

 A green coloured sandstone is found near Rusin, which is used for 

 colouring walls ; the stone is ground, mixed with gum water and grease, 

 and smeared upon the walls ; it gives a dark bluish green colour. It is 

 found, but in smaller deposits, near Tirohan, especially at the summit of 

 the remarkable hill of Sudhwara and below the surface, in the bed of a 

 nullah at Bramh Kund near Kamta. It appears to be crude greenstone, 

 not hardened by igneous action into the usual form of that rock. 



1 0th. A stalagmitic deposit of limestone overlying sandstone occurs 

 near Gurhrampur, which is extensively quarried and burnt at the 

 village of Gurhrampur, whence it is extensively exported ; it is valued 

 from its great whiteness and purity. This deposit occurs abundantly 

 elsewhere, and I have found it in every one of the similar dells I have 

 examined in the Kalyangarh Pergannah ; but it is not used there as 

 that Pergannah is not so accessible as Gurhrampur. 



llth. The appearance of the sandstone crowned hills running along 

 with a horizontal crest scarped summit and steep glacis with occasional 

 heights and promontories, cannot fail to remind the spectator of a sea- 

 coast view, while the solitary hills below have every appearance of 

 islands standing in the now dried sea at their base. 



