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height. From the plain it presents a singular appearance, the whole 

 surface being completely bare and rounded at the top, with large masses 

 hanging at its sides, the remains of some concentric lamellae, part of 

 which have fallen or slipped into the plain. On it are numerous exca- 

 vations, which serve as reservoirs for water, some of very considerable 

 depth. The colour of the granite is a whitish grey and it contains mica 

 in separate spots. At the top is a building of a square form, formerly 

 a palace of one of the Golconda sovereigns, the " Kootub Shahs," whose 

 dynasty commenced in 1512 and ended in 1574. Some of the blocks of 

 granite of which it is built are twenty feet in length. Beams of teak 

 thirty feet in length. I observed in different parts on the surface of 

 the granite projections of a harder and less decomposable rock which 

 may in many cases be the cause of the loggan stones which are found 

 here, although few in number. 



Monday, \2th July, 1819. — The country passed through, Oonperty, 

 Motamughoor, Koelcondah, Mundrick, differs in no respect in its 

 general and particular appearances from that previously visited. The 

 veins of greenstone are more frequent, more irregular in their direction 

 and less continuous at Koelkondah and its neighbourhood. I observ- 

 ed several on the sides of the loftier hills and others at the top of 

 the lower ; in most places it was of the common kind ; at Koelcon- 

 dah it is fine large grained, ringing when struck and containing rather 

 more felspar than is usual. Between Koelcondah and Mundrah, the 

 most remarkable features were the concentric structure of the granite, 

 the lamellae in some instance are ten feet in thickness, their dislocation 

 seems to have been hastened by some earthquake. The granite was 

 reddish grey, becoming black on the weather side. On the banks of 

 the Mussey, I noticed a trap vein apparently much intermixed and 

 confused with the granite. At this place Mundrah, two hills in the 

 neighbourhood, present the tabular form, there is much granite of the 

 syenitic kind and closely resembling that of Mulkapoor. Also consi- 

 derable quantities of the trap and considerable debris of quartz from 

 veins in the granite. I have observed in many places a curious breccia 

 of limestone, felspar, and quartz ; it in some instances, resembles that 

 on the bank and bed of the Seendy containing large blocks of granite ; I 

 have not observed it in any quantity as yet ; the soil however in many 

 places is impregnated with carbonate of lime. 

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