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through them to Kutchkonda. A good deal of stone has been quar- 

 ried in a superficial way at this place both to the north and east, 

 the quarried stone lies just under trap. In the evening rode East 

 some four miles, to see a fall in the River Maau ; the fall is near the 

 village of Neemkhera, and is caused by a barrier of trap, the height 

 from 18 to 20 feet, according to the place it is taken from. A con- 

 siderable quantity of water was going over it in four streams. 

 Between the fall and Kutchkonda, the river exposes a considerable 

 thickness of crystalline limestones and shales in thin beds, dipping 

 considerably to the K". E. and at Kutchkonda is a gritty shale, used 

 by the barbers of all Nimar as a honestone. 



25^7*. — Via Cheerakhan, (meaning "cut-stone quarry") to Deora. 

 The former is evidently the place from whence cut-stone went to 

 Mandoo, and is so remembered traditionally. There are two small 

 mosques in the Mandoo style, built by the workmen of the olden 

 days. The quarries lie on the top of low hills, aud have been 

 quarried along the top in a layer of about four or five feet, no where 

 apparently deeper. The rock is here not covered with trap. The 

 amount of stone that has been quarried is very large. From 

 Cheerakhan to Deora, the country is all limestone. A mile or two 

 out of Deora, passed what appeared to be a fossil trunk of a tree 

 lying on the road ; and about half a mile out, a bed of thin shales 

 dipping to the north. The thick limestone seems nearly horizontal. 

 At Deora found that the people had collected a good many fossils. 



2Qtli. — In the morning for several hours fossil hunting ; found 

 some new ones, and saw a bank that appeared to contain more, and 

 in which many were found iu the evening. The fossil bed is com- 

 posed of a clay, usually yellow, with some red and white veins in it, 

 and with about a foot of compact limestone over it, the bed is 

 intersected by a stream, and shows best near the village of Odeypoor : 

 near it is also a bed of very friable limestone, looking exactly like 

 that over the caves at Baug, but containing Echini and some small 

 shells. 



27th. — In the morning marched east, some six miles to the 

 Village of Putlovved, a deserted site on high ground near a small 

 stream. The bed of the stream was all trap, but a number of echini 

 were distributed in the gravel of its bed, showing that it must pass 



