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year. (March 1857.) Captain Keatlnge had, in company with Mr. 

 Blackwell, Mineral viewer to the Bombay Government, revisited the 

 Baug district in the month of January, and has favored me with an 

 extract from his journal, which being brief, and full of interest, I 

 give entire. 



Extracts from Captain Keatinge's Journal. 



l^th January, 1857. — Erom Mundlaisir marched 15 miles to Khul, 

 where the Bombay and Agra road crosses the Nerbudda. 



15th. — Passed by Dhurmpooree, and on to Tolie, a small village 

 in the jungle. 



IQth. — Munawer a town on the river Maan, west of the town is 

 a small temple in a field, some of the pieces of limestone of which 

 it is composed are a mass of shells. 



VJth. — To Dherree a large village on the Ourie river. All about 

 Dherree the country is composed of a Breccia of trap, with some 

 limestone and sandstone pieces amongst it, some of them are a little 

 rolled but the most are angular. Erom Mundlaisir to Dherree, all 

 the country is of trap with no jungle, except a small babool scrub 

 and uuinteresting. 



18th. — To Bang, the Breccia continuing most of the way. Some 

 three or four miles from Baug, sandstone is seen in the bed of a 

 nullah, but the high land about is all trap. About two miles out of 

 Baug, the sandstone commences, it is of a light pink colour easily 

 broken up, and the plain is covered with silicious sand from it ; in 

 the bed of the stream, we found pieces of black shale which on 

 exposure to strong heat, bubble up into a slag, and on being left in 

 a wood fire for some hours, turn light grey ; we could trace no vege- 

 table impressions in them. 



19th. — To see the iron ore, first proceeded east of the town 

 some four miles, and came to the last works which were carried on 

 some 16 or 20 years ago. The ore lies in the body of a small hill, and 

 has been most extensively quarried, it is a light yellow ore like that 

 of Nandia, near Burwah, and of Nancoot, but in far greater masses 

 than any I have seen at those places, and has been most extensively 

 worked. The deepest mine w r e went into measured 48 feet from 

 top to bottom, and was about double that width. Quite close to the 

 ore is a large hill of limestone, but so hard and deep blue that I was 



