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angles of inclination and generally at about 25°. The greater part of 

 my road lay through alluvial soil, the limestone appearing only at 

 intervals ; near the river nothing else was visible. I observed in many 

 places that the calcareous cement or pudding-stone laid in the hori- 

 zontal interstices of the limestone, and in no instance did I find it 

 covering any extent of surface. 



\Ath August, 1819. — The limestone as usual for about three miles, 

 when it appeared to pass into clay slate, and at last became covered by 

 a quartzose rock, which without any appearance of stratification formed 

 a range of 150 feet in height, branching oif in different directions; 

 its general one being nearly the same with that on the other side of the 

 river (E. and W.) and probably of the same composition (Pooly- 

 chentah). To arrive at Moogtial I was forced to make a considerable 

 detour, the road lying through land which had been covered a few days 

 before by the overflow of the Kistna. Moogtial is a small town in 

 the English territory with a fort occupied by the Zemindar. I pitched 

 my tent close to the river and near a quarry of the limestone, in which 

 I observed many large blocks some twenty feet in length, lying close to 

 the water edge as if ready for water carriage ; the blocks were cut out of 

 the solid rock to the requisite thickness, and wedges inserted in the 

 interstices of the stratification and the block was complete. 



Anantagherry , \bth August, 1819. — I observed the calcareous com- 

 pound again in the interstices of the limestone and am forced to conclude 

 that it is of contemporaneous formation. This rock is still visible 

 for three miles, when the ground appeared covered with pisiform iron 

 ore and alluvium. At the village of Boodoor and on the banks and bed 

 of the Paleer, a clay slate formed of layers of blue, grey and red> hori- 

 zontal, and covered by the quartzose rock before described ; this was 

 soon succeeded by the granite and its usual accompaniments trap veins. 

 One remarkably large and distinct one appeared continuous with that 

 of Lingageree before mentioned. 



Anantagherry, 16 th August, 1819. — I this morning breakfasted 

 with Everest who gave me specimens of clay slate from Polychinlah ; 

 of brown iron stone from Sarangapilly ; and of a mixture of chlorite 

 slate with limestone and quartz from between the two stations. The 

 upper part of the Polychinlah ridge, is of quartz rock crystallized in 

 rhomboidal pieces and rapidly decomposing. 



