44 FOOTE : GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



up is rich, earthy haematite, brought on bullocks' backs from the 

 Adar gani (mine), about ih miles west of the famous Kumaraswami 

 temple on the south plateau of the Sandur hills, and described on 

 page 121. 



To the eastward of Shiddagal, between it and Gudikote, stands a 

 long line (six or seven miles) of considerable granite hills, high enough 

 to shut out Gudikote hill itself from sight. The map, sheet 59, takes 

 no cognizance of their existence. 



Many bands of hornblendic gneiss are crossed in the scrubby 



Hornblendic and J un § le ¥ n g between Hurlihal and Shiddagal : 



micaceous gneisses. t h e y y ie a b ou t half way between the two places. 



Dark micaceous gneiss occurs also to the south-south-east of 

 Hurlihal, and to the eastward many beds of hornblendic gneiss, while 

 beyond them a very granitic region extends down to the Janagahalla 

 (river), which is the Mysore boundary. 



The Gudikote (Goodicotta) hills form a line only, if the Raya 



Drug hills be considered as their extension, 

 Gudikote line of hills. , 1 • 11 j 



which they should be, geologically and geo- 

 graphically, though fiscally and politically the line is cut across 

 by a broad strip of Mysore territory which runs up north for some 

 15 miles beyond the point of intersection. 



The northernmost hill that I would reckon as belonging to the 



Gudikote line is a great domoid mass, 1 lying close 



south-west of the village of Bandari (Bundaree) 

 on the Kudligi-Sandur high road. The granitoid forming it is a close- 

 grained compact rock, very similar in appearance to that form- 

 ing the great dome of M£ch£l Banda, 11 miles to the south-east. 

 The rock here is pale grey, very felspathic granite gneiss with a 

 northerly dip. 



To the south-east of Bandari hill and between the villages of 

 Govanhall and Hirahal, on the banks of the Narihalla, is a perfect 

 labyrinth of grey granite, in low rugged hillocks and hummocks, spread 



1 Bandari hill, though a large and important one, is omitted from sheet 59, as are 

 many others in that part. Machal Banda is a Trigonometrical station and attains to 

 2,662 feet above sea-level. 



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