6 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



rugged and picturesque clusters which lie parallel to each other 

 Hampi and Daroji between the Sandur hills and the Tungabhadra. 

 hllls - To these I will give the collective names of the 



Hampi and the Daroji hills from the two best known places adjoin- 

 ing them. They lie parallel to each other and are separated by a well- 

 defined east to west valley, extending from a little east of Kamala- 

 pur to a little north of Daroji. Hampi, the remaining suburb of the 

 old Hindu capital Vijayanagar, lies at the west end of the north- 

 ern cluster, and Daroji at the east end of the southern one. Both 

 are remarkably rugged, and in many parts highly picturesque. Some 

 few years ago, when Mr. Kelsall wrote the District Manual, they 

 appear to have been fairly well wooded, but are now very bare, 

 except in a few inaccessible gullies. Timmapa Konda in the Hampi 

 group, attains an elevation of 2,128', and Daroji Drug hill is probably 

 considerably higher. 



To the eastward of these, in the Bellary taluq, are sundry clusters 

 of hills rising in the open plain far away from any of the ranges. 

 These are, taking them from north to south, the Sirrigara hills, twenty 

 miles north of Bellary, the Sindigiri hills, five miles south-east of the 

 former, the Kurgode cluster, four miles south-west of the Sindigiris, the 

 Bellary hills, the Sungankal and Kapgal cluster, four miles north-east 

 of Bellary, and, lastly, the cluster west-south-west of Hirahal and 

 about eleven miles south-west of Bellary town. 



Excepting the Sindigiri group, which consists of haematite 

 quartzites and schists, all these hills consist of granite gneiss of dif- 

 ferent sorts. 



Twenty miles south of the Hirahal cluster lies Raya Drug, the 



centre of a large and important cluster of grani- 

 Raya Drug hills. ., _ .„ , , , , r & 



toid hills, which here attain to considerably 



greater height than any of the other granitoid clusters. Raya Drug 



hill is 2,799', according" to the Trigonometrical Survey, and the 



really grand mass of Kailasa Konda, 3$ miles to the west by south 



measures 3,01 1', according to the Mysore Topographical surveyors. 



With their greater height they also show greater beauty of form and 



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