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greasy to the touch ; and sometimes so massive in structure as to make 

 an excellent building stone, although it rarely loses its slaty fracture. 

 Thin pieces, per se, before the blow- pipe, fuse partially on the edges 

 into globules of a greenish-coloured enamel. 



It is often intersected by ferruginous quartz veins, or rather layers, 

 that, penetrating the lateral joint seams, and the almost vertical layers 

 of stratification, divide the rock into cuboidal masses. Veins of a 

 reddish grey or white kunker, both friable and compact, occur. 



Country S. of Darwar to the Mysore and Canara Frontiers, From 

 the hills of Darwar to the Mysore frontier near Bunwassi and Chun- 

 dergooty, the face of the country presents a plain diversified with a 

 few mammiform and smooth conoidal truncated hills, which do not 

 rise to any considerable height. The soil is generally reddish and 

 alluvial, crossed in an easterly direction by narrow belts of cotton 

 soil. The formation is much the same as at Darwar. Dykes of 

 greenstone and beds of kunker now become more frequent. A large 

 deposit of the latter is crossed on the road between the old town of 

 Hoobly and the German mission house, about fifteen miles S. E. from 

 Darwar. The wells near are often brackish, and so deep as seventy feet. 

 Both Hingari and Mungari crops are cultivated. Rice too is grown 

 in some of the moist, shallow vallies and flats below the small tanks, 

 which now become more numerous. 



Bunwassi and Mysore Frontier. Towards Bunwassi quartz rock 

 prevails with greenstone dykes, having a general easterly direction 

 often covered by beds of laterite and lateritic conglomerate imbedding 

 fragments of quartz rock in a cellular brown ferruginous paste. This 

 rock has been employed in the construction of the wall enclosing the 

 quadrangle of the ancient temple and the old temple at Bunwassi. A 

 little farther South rises from the schists the lofty rock of Chundergooty 

 in Mysore, a mountain mass of granitoidal gneiss divided by vertical 

 and almost horizontal fissures. 



From Bunwassi to Gudduk. From Bunwassi, E. N. Easterly to 

 Savanoor, the chloritic and coloured schists and slate clays continue. 

 Near the latter place dykes of greenstone become more frequent, ac- 

 companied by depositions of kunker, which is seen filling fissures in 

 the schists, and overspreading their surface beneath the alluvial soil. 

 The direction of the beds at Savanoor suffers a deflection after 



