600 Notes upon a tour through the Rdjmahal Hills. [No. 



The pod when unripe is highly aromatic and milky. At the seventh 

 mile passed over a bed of red and grey sandstone, one rrile in width, 

 which has escaped being overlaid by the neighbouring basalt, and 

 which has been cut into by the action of the water of a small hill 

 stream ; it is the common coarse sandstone which is found in company 

 with the coal at Doobrajpoor and of which bed it is an outcrop. 



Passed under the small basaltic hill Kalipuhar, on which stands one 

 of the masonry pillars demarcating the Damin-i-koh boundary. The 

 hills about Karodih are low, round-backed and well wooded. 



1 2th February, 1851. — Direction south-west six miles ; over basalt 

 for the first four miles ; at the fourth mile sandstone is met with at 

 the entrance of a prettily wooded valley flanked by low hills. Crossed 

 the sandstone hills to Saltaha where there is a bungalow, on the banks 

 of a hill torrent. 



A heavy fog obscured the landscape during the greater part of the 

 march. The basalt passed over this day was of a pale grey colour, 

 embedding agate and chalcedony balls ; and sometimes appearing as 

 large slabs or floors of rock, at other spots as exfoliating into spherical 

 masses. In the nullah south of the bungalow, the water has laid bare 

 a flooing or mass of sandstone one foot in thickness, the whole divided 

 into right-angled parallelograms of two feet in length by one foot in 

 width. The regularity of the divisions and uniformity of the angles 

 are very remarkable, both of which I imagine are the effects of desic- 

 cation. The sandstone overlies a soft friable white clay, and observ- 

 ing traces of coal in it, Mr. Pontet, whom I again met at this spot, 

 at my requisition sent off a Sonthal up the nullah to look out for coal. 

 He returned in the afternoon bringing specimens of a slaty coal which 

 burnt very well. In the evening went to the spot, which is on the 

 right bank of the nullah one mile south by east of the Sonthal village 

 Chicheroo. 



Feet. Inches. 



The section in the banks shows earth, 3 ,, 



Sandstone, 9 ,, 



Slaty coal and shale, , ,, ,, 



\'Mh February, 1851. — Direction five miles south-east to Moosuria 

 bungalow, on the left bank of the Brahminee river. The road winds 

 prettily under low basaltic hills, the lowland being sandstone and 



