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reach, on the west by the ranges west of Kulladghur, and those of 

 Gokauk on the flank of the Western Ghauts. 



Plain of Baguleotta. This plain continues westerly to within a 

 few miles from Kulladghi, watered by the Gutpurba on the north, and 

 bounded by a long, low, flat- topped range, evidently of sandstone ; to the 

 S. the limestone, which bases it, has a general dip of about 25° towards 

 the E. N. E. at Baguleotta, and a direction nearly parallel to that of 

 the sandstone ranges, viz. N. N. W. ; both dip and direction, however, 

 vary occasionally, probably from flexures and disturbance by plutonic 

 intrusion. The limestone in the vicinity of Baguleotta and Kulladghi 

 is of various shades and textures ; sometimes as white and crystalline as 

 marble, and composed almost entirely of carbonate of lime ; at others 

 siliceous or magnesian, or passing into whitish, green, blue, red and 

 chocolate-coloured argillaceous shales. At Baguleotta a pale buff 

 coloured limestone occurs, portions of which might be applied to 

 lithographic purposes; specimens of it I believe have been sent to 

 Bombay for trial, but in consequence, probably, of not being selected 

 properly, have been rejected as too hard, or for being veined. 



The site I hardly conceive has had a fair trial ; by the sending down 

 a person practically qualified to select specimens, and by the quarrying 

 a little deeper than has hitherto been done, I have little doubt that 

 better samples of the stone might be got. Talicotta however, as men- 

 tioned in a previous paper, is the most promising locality for lithogra- 

 phic limestone. 



The purer white crystalline variety is broken up into small fragments, 

 and burnt into lime. I observed in it the same green chloritic flakes 

 which I afterwards found veining the marble in the quarries of Mount 

 Pentelicus near Athens, and in the Cipolin Marbles. A pale salmon, 

 or flesh-coloured subcrystalline variety, resembling Tiree marble, 

 occurs both near Baguleotta and at Sullakairy, a village about three 

 miles S. from Kulladghi. 



About three miles to the E. of Kulladghi a few low hills of a 

 lateritic conglomerate rest on the limestone and associated shales, 

 running parallel with the sandstone ranges. The cementing substance 

 is partly a calcareous, and partly a clayey paste of a yellowish or red- 

 dish colour, imbedding nodules of laterite. The lower portions of this 

 rock are more compact than the upper, and exhibit distinct lines of 



