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are more mountainous in appearance. A good many of the minor 

 hills of this cluster are omitted from the Atlas Sheet (No. 59), 

 though of sufficient size to have deserved representation. 



The only remaining clusters of detached hills of sufficient size to 

 deserve individual notice are the Halvi (Hallwy) 1 and Vurakonda 

 (Oorkoonky) hills, in the north-western, and the Yemmiganur hills, in 

 the eastern part of the Adoni taluq. Like the foregoing, they consist 

 of granitoid rocks. 



As before pointed out, the surface of Bellary District has a 

 generally northerly slope down to the valley of the Tungabhadra. 

 Along the southern boundary of the district, in the Harapanahalli and 

 Kudligi taluqs, the officers of the Topographical Survey of Mysore 

 made many closely adjoining hypso-metrical observations, which show 



Elevation of the south- the slo P e of the country very well. In the south 

 ern boundary. f fcne Harapanahalli taluq the boundary ap- 



proximates pretty closely to the 2,ooo' contour line, but sinks to 

 1,730' in the valley of the Tungabhadra and to 1,900' in that 

 of the Chikka Haggari, To the east of the latter river the level of the 

 country rises again, so that to the south of the village of Ujinni 

 (Oojinny) its elevation on the Mysore boundary line is 2,108' and 

 south of Nambalgiri 2,216'. From here the level of the boundary line 

 falls very gradually south-eastward to the valley of the Janagahalla 

 (or Chinna Haggari), where the elevation of the river bed is 1,971' 

 above sea-level. From this point the boundary keeps north-eastward 

 along the left bank of the river, which falls to 1,766' twenty-seven 

 miles further down, at a place a little more than a mile outside the 

 boundary, which there leaves the river valley and trends northward. 

 The Janagahalla valley cuts across the promontory of Mysore territory, 

 which here juts out far to the north, and shortly after the river 

 re-enters the Bellary district near Kudlur, in Raya Drug taluq, it 



has fallen to the level of i,534 1 - 



From this point the boundary trends southward and rises to much 



The names enclosed in brackets are those used in the Atlas sheets, most of which 

 are incorrectly spelt, according to the Hunterian canon of transliteration, which is here 

 followed, as it gives the pronunciation of the names much more accurately. 



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