4 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF THE 13ELLARV DIST 



(easO bank of the latter river the line of hills recommences in 

 the Kanchagar-Bellagal ridge, called Bellagal or White Rock, be- 

 cause of the great precipitous white quartz run which crests it for 

 fully four miles. Other hills east of Hollalgundi connect it with 

 the Alur cluster above referred to. South and south-east of Alur 

 the line is continued by the Hatti Bellagal, Ram Durg, Naggaradoni, 

 and Belldoni hills and ends in the Chippagiri hills, four miles north- 

 west of Guntakal railway junction. The Alur line of hills lies about 

 30 miles north-east of the Copper Mountain ridge. 



The second of the lines of detached hills above noted, which may 



Adoni and Kotakal suitably be called the Adoni and Kotakal line, 

 line of hills. might by some be regarded as a double line, 



but the several hills forming the two lines are not sufficiently far 

 apart to treat them as belonging to two b-ends. The strike of this 

 line of hills is rather to the south-east by south than to the south- 

 east. This line of hills maybe regarded as commencing about six 

 miles south of the Tungabhadra, near Kosgi station on the North West 

 line, Madras Railway, and extending to the east of Aspari (Aspree) 

 station, some three or four miles into the Patti Konda Taluq, Karnul 

 district. This line includes three main clusters, the Kamani Konda 

 cluster, the Adoni cluster, 11 miles to the south, and the Kota Kal 

 cluster 8 miles east-north-east of the latter. The length of the line 

 of hills is 36 miles, and the plain separating it from the nearest hill 

 in the Alur line is about 12 miles in width. 



Two other groups of hills in which the arrangement is still dis- 



Gudikote hills :Kudligi tinctly linear, though less obviously so than in 

 h * lls - the Alur and Adoni-Kotakal groups, occur to the 



southward and westward of the Sandur hills : these are the Gudikote 

 hills and the Kudligi hills. The former lie south of the Sandur hills and 

 stretch south-south-east down to the valley of the Chinna Haggari or 

 Janaga nalla (river). Geographically they are continuous south- 

 easterly with the Rayadrug cluster of hills (see p. 6), but politically 

 they are separated by a projecting limb of Mysore territory, some eight 

 to ten miles in width, which extends northward for a distance of rather 



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