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not so strong as it is supposed to be. Granite. No diamonds. 

 The characteristics of this country and striking ones they are : loggan 

 stones and tors of the most grotesque appearance, generally smaller 

 than their support or pediment, and in many instances piled together by 

 threes ; their origin I shall hereafter speak of : — tanks of large dimen- 

 sions varying from twenty to thirty miles in circumference, formed 

 by dividing the bed of a natural lake formed during the rains, into two 

 parts by a large mound or bund, through which several locks suffer 

 the water to escape as it is wanted to fertilize the other half of the 

 bed, converted into paddy fields : — the trap or greenstone running twenty 

 miles E. by S. of which I have seen three miles ; this stone is used for 

 lingams and gods by the Hindus, and for tombs by the Mahomedans. 



Monday, lltk January, 1819. — We travelled through a country 

 similar in all respects to the one we had quitted, except that the 

 granite tors assumed a still more grotesque appearance as we ad- 

 vanced, until within two miles of Puttuncheroo, when the granite 

 suddenly ceased to be visible and a fine plain of alluvial soil was spread 

 out before us covered with trees and bearing the strongest proofs of 

 great capability for cultivation. 



Tuesday, \2th January, 1819. — The country between Puttuncheroo 

 and Begumpett, on which the village is built, consisted of the same 

 fertile soil and plain, bounded on the east and west by low granite 

 hills still preserving their peculiar features, when on our arrival 

 at Begumpett the granite suddenly reappeared in our path and formed 

 the hill on which it stands. On descending we found a stiff bluish clay 

 which continued to the place of our encampment Susdanuggur, on the 

 borders of a tank. 



Wednesday, 13th January, 1819. — We travelled through the same 

 plain ; low granite hills making their appearance until we nearly 

 reached Wondole, when quartz rock forming considerable elevations 

 running in a N. and S. direction ; this rock continued for a mile 

 and a half, and then disappeared two or three hundred yards from 

 Jogypett, the place of our encampment. There the rock rises highest, 

 perhaps 50 feet. The quartz appears to have been once covered by 

 an iron clay deposit from the quantity of pisiform iron ore found on 

 it and from that formation being found in the ravines and rents at the 

 sides and bottom of the hills. 



