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elaborately sculptured mosque in the town Lackmaisir appear to be of 

 this stone, retaining, like lapis lazuli, the pyrites which shine like so 

 many spots of gold in its polished surface. In weathered surfaces of 

 the rock these crystals are often seen projecting. It is not unlike 

 some varieties of the celebrated calcareous breccia di verde of Egypt. 



From its massive character, and want of a proper section, I could 

 not find whether it was interstratified with the gneiss, or rested uncon- 

 formably upon it. Gold-dust is found in the Nalas of Hurti, of Soltoor, 

 and of Chick Mulgoond. 



Beyond this singular hill runs a dyke of greenstone E. by S., which is 

 crossed on the road, and also a range of chlorite and clay slate hills crest- 

 ed with ferruginous silicious schist, having a similar direction. Passing 

 this, the country slopes northerly to Gudduck where gneiss and felspar 

 rocks continue. 



From Gudduck E. to the Ceded Districts^ and N. to Gujunder Ghur, 

 From Gudduck easterly to the Tumbuddra and the Ceded Districts, 

 the formations consist of gneiss, hornblende slate and granite; and 

 from Gudduck westerly to Darwar, first gneiss and hornblende slate ; 

 succeeded, about seventy or eighty miles E. of Darwar, by chlorite and 

 coloured schists and shales. North of Gudduck the hypogene schists 

 and granite extend to Gujunder Ghur, where they are covered by the 

 sandstone beds. 



Kupputgode Hills. The Kupputgode range presents an example of 

 one of the crop dislocations which traverse the table-land of the penin- 

 sula in a direction from, E. by S. to E. S. E. often influencing the courses 

 of the large rivers which, rising in the Western Ghauts, flow over the 

 table-lands through gaps in the Eastern Ghauts to the Bay of Bengal. 

 It commences a little south of Gudduck, and proceeds in a curvilinear 

 direction easterly, until a little W. of the village of Kuddumpore where 

 it bifurcates ; the principal branch taking a S. 25° E. direction to 

 the Toombuddra, which flows through a wide gap, and is continued 

 into the Ceded Districts by Harponhully. The northern branch 

 pursues an easterly course towards Dummul, where it traverses a 

 wide plain extending as far as the eye can reach to the N. E. The 

 strata dip near Gudduck towards the N. at an angle of 35°. Those 

 of the southern chain, below the bifurcation and change in the direction, 



