JOURNAL 



OP THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



No. III.— 1850. 



Extracts from Dr. Voysey's Private Journal when attached to the 

 Trigonometrical Survey in Southern and Central India, No. II. 



In. Vol. XIII. of the Journal, p. 853, will be found the first of these papers, 

 though in point of time the last. The Editor now proposes to complete the series 

 much of which, in connection with the papers published by the late lamented Cap- 

 tain Newbold, will be found of great interest and importance in our present scanty 

 knowledge of the geology of these extensive districts. — Ed. 



Extract from B. H.'s Manuscript.* 



The mountainous tracts of which this Peninsula is composed, con- 

 sist chiefly of primitive formations of which the old trap with all its 

 subordinates is the principal. 



The hills in general do not rise to any great perpendicular height, 

 few are higher than 5000 feet and most only 1000 to 1500, and those 

 close to the sea 5 to 600 feet. 



The country south of the Krishna may be divided into the eastern 

 coast, the table-land, and the Malabar coast. 



The trap formation including the older, later and newest, is the most 

 common, producing gold, diamonds, &c. 



The coast between the sea and the mountains is low, although one 

 occasionally meets with slight elevations of 50 or 100 feet. 



The general ascent is indeed so trifling that although the ghauts are 

 from 50 to 80 miles from the sea, their feet are seldom elevated more 



* It is not now known who this gentleman was, but Dr. Voysey, had evidently 

 found this general sketch worth notice and the Editor has thus inserted it also. 

 No. XXXIX. 2 c 



