46 FOOTE: GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



exception, the highest of the granitoid hills in the district. The sum- 

 mit of Peddaperla is, thanks to its mural scarps, very castellated in 

 appearance, and offers a strong contrast to the smooth outline of the 

 adjoining non-blocky granite gneiss hill east of Uppayanhalli, which 

 consists of a highly felspathic rock like that of the Mach£l gudda 

 Trioonometrical station. 



In the northern part of the group the western side of the valley 

 lined lane at °* Golla Linganhalli, close to the south end 

 Golla Linganhalli. of the Sandur synclinal, is formed by a smooth 



inclined plane of granite, like that forming the eastern side of the 

 Uchingi Drug ridge and described above, p. 32 — apparently a great 

 plane of bedding, perfectly clear and visible from a moderate distance, 

 but not by any means obvious, nor measurable as to its angle, when 

 close at hand. 



The four to eight miles of Mysore territory which intervene between 

 G anite country west tne ma i n mass of theGudikote hills and the Raya 

 of Raya Drug. Drug, are occupied by a tract of country of sin- 



gular beauty. The bold rocky hills which rise out of it in every 

 direction are divided from each other by equally picturesque valleys 

 full of fine trees, amongst which tamarind trees, pre-eminent for their 

 love of granitic soil, abound. The road from the Travellers' bunga- 

 low at Hanagal (on the Bangalore-Bellary high road), which skirts 

 the south side of the line of hills for the first five miles, and for 

 the next four passes right through them, takes one through scenery 

 not easily forgotten for its striking beauty in grand rocks and rich 

 vegetation. Molakalmuru and Kailasa, the former in Mysore, the 

 latter in British territory, are the two highest and the most striking 

 of the granite peaks in the whole of this region, the former measuring 

 3,022 feet, and the latter 3,011 feet, above sea-level. Raya Drug itself 

 is a fine mass ; but from its proximity to the town to which it gives 

 its name has been almost completely stripped of vegetation, which 

 gives it a bare and damaged appearance. It consists of a grey gran- 

 ite, weathering into large and rather moire than usually rounded 

 blocks. The old fortifications are very extensive ; and, from their 



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