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of intrusive runs of brecciated quartz and to large trap-dykes. Indeed, 

 the neighbourhood of Harapanahalli presents one of the most re- 

 markable series of brecciated quartz runs to be seen anywhere in 

 the peninsula. 



To the southward of Harapanahalli rises a considerable plexus of 

 Narasimha-dever gud- low but often very rugged granitoid hills, at the 

 da - southern extremity of which (eight miles south- 



south-east of Harapanahalli) Narasimha-dever gudda, a very bold and 

 picturesque hill, rises some 500 feet above the surrounding plain and 

 2,544 feet above sea-level. Narasimha-dever gudda consists of grey, 

 banded, granite gneiss, the bedding of which is unusually distinct when 

 seen from the south-east, and dips at an angle of about 50 to the 

 south-south-west, and appears to underlie a great thickness of coarse, 

 greenish or greyish green potstone, which lie a little distance to the 

 south-west, and further south, still forms the bare, blocky, rounded 

 mass known as Arsapur hill. Whether these beds of potstone belong 

 to the gneissic series, or whether they should be reckoned as part of 

 the younger Dharwar system, which also contains beds of potstone, 

 is doubtful, and is a point that can only be determined hereafter by 

 yet closer examination of the country. 



Seven miles south of Narasimha-dever gudda rises the higher, but 



much less picturesque, mass, of Uchinei 1 Drug:, 

 Uchingi Drug. i H ' ' S 5> 



a very bare, steep, rocky ridge, about a mile in 



5 Uchingi Drug (written variously Oochingy, Huchangi, or Vutsangi), a famous old 

 durgam or hill-fort, of immense strength in olden times, was one of the seats of the 

 important Poligar family of Harapanahalli. The family belonged to the Boyas, or 

 Beders, a low-caste, but very bold and sport-loving tribe, from which arose many of the 

 leading Poligar families in the Deccan ; among them the Poligars of Wakingeri and 

 Surapur (so lovingly and graphically described by Meadows Taylor in "The Noble 

 Queen " and " The Story of My Life "), also those of Raya Drug and Chital Drug. 



A story is still told by the Uchingi Drug people that one of the Harapanahalli Poli- 

 gars, Thattiah Naik, who acquired the drug as part of his wife, Honnai Magathi's dower 

 from her father, the Naik, or Poligar, of Chitaldrug, fell out with the latter some years 

 after his marriage. Finding that his wife sided with her father, Thattiah Naik took her 

 one day to one of the bastions overhanging the town, on the pretence of showing her her 

 father's country, and then suddenly pushed her over and thus murdered her. The cliff 

 over which she fell into the tank below is still called after her Honnaigere, and the tank 

 Honnai Honda. I am indebted for this story to T. Mootoogopal Pillay (Hospital Assist- 

 ant, Madras Party, Geological Survey of India), who took a very intelligent interest in 



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