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lumps of sandstone. In the few instances in which this was attached 

 to the rock, they were found in the interstices or in those parts 

 exposed to the action of the sun and the rain. In all places vast 

 quantities of the debris were found in the shape of sandstone and 

 quartz, and particularly near the banks of the river. The slope of the 

 ground to the banks was very distinct when we were several miles 

 distant from it. On its banks the limestone was abruptly broken off 

 and the general appearance suggested the idea that some convulsion 

 arising either from a subsidence of the strata or from an earthquake 

 had formed the bed of the river. The banks were covered with allu- 

 vial soil and presented considerable quantities of the alluvial iron sand. 

 A brahmin told me that the extent of the limestone both above and 

 below the river, was about 15 miles in each direction. Its extent in 

 the other direction is about 40 miles. 



Motapilly, 9th August, 1819. — I yesterday had some of the quick 

 lime brought to me : it appeared to be good. A considerable quantity 

 of calc spar is found in veins, and loose masses on the banks of the 

 river and would form excellent lime. I rode to a pagoda about a mile 

 from the camp and crossed a nullah beyond it, but observed nothing 

 which induced me to continue my journey. In the evening I went on 

 foot to the northward of the camp and found very large collections of 

 the rounded sandstone, intermixed with jasper, crystallized quartz and 

 containing in it carbonate of lime and calcedony with a white decompos- 

 ed surface. In one or two places I observed the cement still adhering 

 to the rounded lumps forming the pudding-stone. On all sides were 

 numerous deep fissures in the limestone rock, through which the torrents 

 flowed, smoothing the rough edges of the limestone. I should have 

 before mentioned that the strata appeared generally to dip a little to 

 the E. N. E., this dip however, is in some places scarcely perceptible. 



Piedderee, Wth August, 1819. — On the road I observed bits of the 

 clay slate, but the rock itself no where visible. I observed a vein of 

 trap running about three miles in a N. E. and S. W. direction, 

 considerably elevated above the granite ; which contained many pieces 

 of the micaceous granite before described, in the flat masses near 

 the village. 



\3th August, 1819. — I observed nothing but the limestone. It 

 appeared to have undergone some convulsion, the strata lying at various 



