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Butea frondosa. At a lower part of the hill due east from the station, 

 I observed in a stone different from any other I had previously seen, 

 several turritulites and bivalves. The stone is of a bluish grey colour 

 alternating from that to a blackish grey, containing transparent 

 spots of stalactitic silica, its fracture is for the most conchoidal, even, 

 with sharp edges ; it is hard, easily frangible and specific gravity 

 about 2.0. I have since found in another part of the hill nearly due 

 north from the station, large nodules of corroded and vesicular flint, and 

 masses of the former stone passing into flint ; some of the masses were 

 a foot and a half in diameter. I also in nearly the same direction from 

 the station, at the distance of half a mile, saw the transition trap laid 

 bare ; it affected the columnar form and was every where split and 

 divided without any appearance of stratification ; in some cases I found 

 on the surface concentric layers rapidly decomposing, enabling me to 

 remove two of its coats. 



Friday, 29 th January, 1819. — I went this day to the southward 

 and westward as I had previously been to the other quarters of the 

 station. The cultivation has evidently extended all over the hill, fully 

 accounting for the smallness of the shrubs and trees on it : ravines 

 proceed in every direction from the top, forming in the rainy season 

 large torrents, supplying the Manjira with the mud which it then 

 deposits on its banks. In the lower grounds I saw wheat, cotton, 

 ricinus, and linseed in cultivation and in flourishing crops. We had 

 scarcely arrived at the bottom of the hill and about half a mile from 

 the first village when the granite appeared in an abrupt part of the 

 road : near its first appearance we found precisely the same mixture, 

 which I have twice before noticed, viz. at the Manjira and Repurlah ; 

 near it was a bed of Meerschaum. The granite with its customary 

 attendants in the shape of loggan stones and tors soon succeeded, with 

 here and there masses of greenstone rolled and scattered without order. 

 The jungle prevented me from tracing their origin. In the even- 

 ing I visited the fort and saw at least a radius of 30 miles of the 

 surrounding country : we were still in the vast plain, but now more 

 broken in upon and diversified with rocks of granite. This is now redder 

 and contains veins of a still redder granite. It has also less of the 

 appearance of concentric layers and has a more stratified look. The 

 fort is miserably dilapidated, we were admitted without the least cere- 



