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not near enough to any of the hills to ascend, if I had time ; when 

 we had performed half our march the rice fields made their appear- 

 ance, and the road was strewed with bits of a conglomerate very much 

 resembling the iron clay, but consisting of carbonate of lime and ferru- 

 ginous clay ; now and then in the road and in the beds of nullahs 

 highly inclined strata of gneiss and greenstone slate made their 

 appearance. In a little temple built in honor of Hunooman, and in 

 which there was his figure in basso-relievo, the portico was built of 

 a beautiful sienitic granite, the hornblende nearly micaceous, being 

 arranged in stripes with great regularity ; my piety prevented me from 

 robbing it of a bit for my cabinet. The face of the country now 

 changed, and the numerous conical hills began gradually to disappear 

 as we left them behind us, and at the end of the long plain before us 

 appeared a chain of hills running N. E., as far as we could see ; their 

 shape angular and slightly peaked, altogether different in their general 

 aspect from those we had quitted. I took the height of the Bar, 

 exactly at 12, but discovered that the Calcutta workman had un- 

 fortunately neglected to solder the tube, which had shifted its place 

 and totally altered the measure. Thermometer 82°. 



Saturday, 5th December, 1818. — The heat and other occupations 

 prevented me from going out until the evening, when I ascended the 

 hill on which a small pagoda is built, due west from the Chauvadi, the 

 steps, in number about 50, were formed of large slabs of clay slate ; 

 quartz rock was scattered about in very large masses ; the pagoda was 

 built principally of greenstone and schistose limestone, the rock sur- 

 rounding it and on which it was built, was quartz rock coloured by 

 iron, with veins of brown ironstone. 



Sunday, 6th December, 1818. — In consequence of a halt, I rose this 

 morning very early for the purpose of visiting once more the hill and 

 pagoda. I found the whole to consist of quartz rock strongly impreg- 

 nated with iron, except that in some places, it consisted of a white 

 quartz in large blocks ; that which was impregnated with iron had veins 

 of brown ironstone running through it, principally in N. E. direction. 

 The limestone and greenstone as well as clay slate come from hills 

 about two coss nearly due west of the village. 



Monday, 7th December, 1818. — The quartz rock continued for 

 some miles from Nacricull, and we there saw a slaty limestone crossing 



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