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scale of this map was one mile to an inch. He also observed that the 

 sandy soil and its stripes of palm and cultivation, extended about 6 miles 

 inland all along the coast, and he expressed his opinion that it owed its 

 origin to the winds that blew it from the sea shore, and not from the 

 desertion of the sea. 



I left Ellore on the 19th February, at six in the morning for Rama 

 Singh waram 1 3^ miles : for the first two or three miles open country and 

 thin cultivation on the soil common to the neighbourhood of Ellore. 

 It was succeeded by red soil and pisiform iron ore, similar to that 

 covering the iron clay, at times large pieces of a conglomerate resem- 

 bling the iron clay of Midnapore, and red iron ore. 



February 20th, 1820. — After travelling from four in the morning I 

 arrived at this village nine miles distant. On my arrival at sunrise I 

 ascended the hill, my barometer not being with me I could not take it 

 up. I found the rock to be sandstone, the cement lithomarge, which was 

 also found in it in large and small amorphous masses, together with jas- 

 pery and red iron ore ; rounded pebbles of quartz were intermixed, and 

 it strongly resembled the rock of Yellapooram and the country around, 

 containing in it those linear shells* of a black ferruginous substance and 

 presenting in no instance appearances of stratification. One part of 

 the rock which I visited and which had been hollowed out artificially was 

 studded with bits of lithomarge white and pink, and had the projections 

 which I mentioned as having been observed on my march to Jellapoorun 

 last year, the dome was an excavation in the rock forming a small 

 chapel with a cupola from which ribs descended to the girdle ; the 

 lingum was of a solid piece of rock but decomposing very fast. I 

 observed in my evening's walk two large trees growing near the tank, 

 of the Strychnos potatorum. 



Monday, February 2\st, 1820. — I left the village of Narsapoor an 

 hour before sunrise, our road lay between the vallies of the sandstone 

 formation, and was rendered difficult by the loose sand into which 

 it had decomposed. The elevations were slight and the ranges much 

 broken, their connexions with the vallies generally by an easy slope. 



The horizon around us is entirely concealed by hills, the general 

 direction of which is N. E. and S. W. their outline rather flattened 

 and rounded with a few conical elevations. We saw the hill forming 



* So in MSS. 



