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CHAPTER II. 

 PREVIOUS WRITERS. 

 The earliest paper on the Geology of Bellary district that I am 



acquainted with is one published in the Philo- 

 Captain Cullen. n _ . ~ , . ^ r 



sophical Magazine for 1828, by Captain W. 



Cullen (afterwards General and for many years Resident in Travan- 



core), under the title " Notice of the Geological Features of a Route 



from Madras to Bellary in April and May 1822." The paper really 



relates to tracts lying in the eastern parts of the Ceded Districts, 



far outside of the Bellary district in its widest definition, and to the 



rocks mostly belonging to the Upper Kadapas and Lower Karnuls 



of the Survey classification, which occupy the country north-east 



of Gooty and are now divided between the Karnul and Anantapore 



districts. His remarks, applicable to rocks lying within the present 



Bellary district, only occupy a couple of lines touching upon the 



granitoids east of the Haggari, and are of no importance. 



The next writer who treated of the Geology of the Bellary district 



was Captain T. J. Newboid, F.R.S., of the Madras 



Captain Newboid. ., , 



Army, who made a number of traverses through 

 various parts of the district, descriptions of which were published 

 in the journals of the Asiatic Societies of London and Bengal and 

 in that of the Madras Literary Society. 



The principal papers which concern us here are the following :— 



1. Notes, principally geological, on the tract between Bellary and Bijapur — Jour' 



nal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, XI, pp. 929—940. (1842). 



2. Notes, principally geological, from Bijapur to Bellary via Kannaghirri— Jour- 



nal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, XI, pp. 941—955. (1842). 



3. Description of the valley of Sondur.— Madras, Journal, Literary Society, VIII, 



pp. 128—152. (1838). 



4. Notice of River Dunes on the banks of the Hogri and Pennaur.— Madras, 



Journal, Literary Society, IX, p. 309. (1839). 



5. Notes, principally geological, from the banks of the Tumbuddra to those of 



the Cauvery.— Madras, Journal, Literary Society, XI, pp. 126—143- 



6. Summary of the Geology of Southern India. -Journal, Royal Asiatic Society, 



VIII. 

 Captain Newboid did far more to elucidate the Geology of Southern 



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