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stratification. The range on the left, or south, of the road from 

 Bagulcctta to Kulladghi, consists of sandstone and conglomerate. The 

 latter imbeds pebbles both rounded and angular from the harder and 

 more siliceous portions of the subjacent shales and limestone, and also 

 pebbles of an older sandstone, which I did not discover in situ; 

 these beds are not inclined so much as the limestones and shales 

 on which they rest, but dip to the same point of the horizon. 



Kulladghi. The nullahs in the vicinity of Kulladghi afford good 

 sections of the limestone and its associated shales which, from their 

 highly inclined and bent strata, have evidently suffered much distur- 

 bance from plutonic forces. The frequent alternations we see of 

 those rocks, in a very confined area, induces the supposition of the 

 beds having been folded back upon themselves, and thus produced 

 the appearance of a double and reversed alternation, the upper parts 

 of the folded strata having been carried away by denudation, as is 

 seen to be the case on the face of some of the magnificent precipices 

 of the Alps. 



The shales are beautifully marked by white, blue, green, yellow, 

 and red coloured bands ; and seamed with arenaceous layers. The 

 open seams of the rock are often encrusted with kunkerous infiltrations. 

 Slate quarries of Katurki. On the Maningpur road near the 

 village of Katurki, about one-half koss from Kulladghi, these slates 

 split into rhomboidal forms by joints, and yield good hones ; at Sulla- 

 kairy tolerable roofing slates, slates and slate pencils are quarried. 

 Sullakairy, as before stated, is about three miles from Kulladghi, on the 

 Gujunderghur road. 



The lower beds of the quarried rock at Sullakairy are of a massive 

 blue slate interstratified with a softer lamellar variety, easily fissile, 

 and divisible into leaves which are often not more than a line thick ; 

 dendritic markings are frequently seen on the surfaces of the lamina*. 

 From the more massive beds are hewn large blocks for pillars 

 of pagodas, Hindu idols, &c. Roofing slates are not much patronized 

 by natives, who prefer tiles, thatch or mud, but considerable quantities 

 have been here quarried and sent to the British cantonment of Bel- 

 gaum and the Portuguese Indian metropolis, Goa. The prices at the 

 quarries, I was informed on the spot, for slates of a foot square and 

 quarter or half an inch thick, are five rupees per hundred slates ; they 



