560 Notes upon a Tour through the Rdjmahal Hills. [No. 7. 



fine and extensive masonry built bazar, ornamented in a fantastic 

 manner by about fifty figures, painted on boards by native artists, as 

 large as life, representing the dress of English females in the reign of 

 George the Second. There are numerous tanks, brick buildings and 

 gardens, besides numerous groves of cocoanut trees swarming with 

 monkeys. 



A quantity of steatite plates, bowls, and dishes were being worked 

 up in the bazar that are brought in a rough state from the district 

 of Bancura situate to the south of the Damuda, coal fields on the 

 granite and syenetic formation. 



A quantity of the Morinda tinctoria (al) is grown at this place, it is 

 used for dyeing the karwa or red cloth used principally in tent-making. 



]5th December, 1850. — Direction west, 10 miles to Andhi. 



After leaving Jamukandi the country rises rapidly all the way to 

 Andhi which is about eighty feet higher than Jamukandi. The 

 whole country passed through this march was under ripe rice cultiva- 

 tion and mulberry and moderately wooded. 



In the tanks saw ampullaria, limnea, paludina, cerithium, and suc- 

 cinea. 



BANKS OF KUNKTJR ARE NUMEROUS. 



\6th December, 1850. — Direction west, distance ten miles to Syn- 

 thia situate on the south or right of the More river. Country still 

 rising, highly cultivated and beautifully wooded with mango groves. 

 Synthia is situated on a high gravel bank which forms at this spot the 

 eastern boundary of the great iron beds, which extend many miles both 

 north, west and south from this place. 



To the north of the village a good section has been effected by the 

 water of the More in the high gravel bank, which affords the following 

 appearance ; on a level with the bed of the river the bank is composed 

 of a very tough arenaceous conglomerate, composed of pink quartz 

 sand connected with a ferruginous cement, capped by a layer several 

 feet thick of a coarse gravel composed of rolled pieces of white and 

 translucent quartz, pisiform iron ore and a few pieces of decomposing 

 felspar, the whole firmly embedded in a ferruginous sand, which is 

 again covered with nodules of kunkur. The bed of the river is in 

 places quite black with magnetic iron dust which clings in clusters to 

 a magnet. 



