JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



No. III.— 1852. 



The Kurrukpoor Hills. — By Captain S. R. Sherwill. (Communi- 

 cated by Captain Thuillier.) 



The group of hills lying immediately to the South of the station of 

 Monghyr, and known as the Kurrukpoor Hills, being named after the 

 town which bears that name and which is situated to the East of the 

 hills, is an offshoot from the northern face of the Vindhya Hills, 

 measuring 30 miles in length, with an average width of 24 miles ; and 

 although the group in the mass lithologically resembles the Vindhya 

 Hills, it still contains within its valleys and on some of its higher peaks, 

 rocks of a much softer nature, such as silicious hornstone, chlorite, 

 chlorite schist, actinolite, actinolite schist, claystone, hornblende, 

 massive asbestos, and a decaying rock known to the natives by the name 

 of Khari, it is a soft greasy, white, or greyish rock associated with and 

 passing into hornstone. 



This group of hills no where rises to a greater height than eleven 

 hundred feet, which is the height of the high table-mountain thirteen 

 miles south of Monghyr, named Maruk ; in the interior are extensive 

 valleys, forests, precipices, hot wells, mountain torrents, quarries and a 

 few villages. 



The following are extracts from a diary kept whilst traversing these 

 hills :— 



2nd September, 1847. — Left Monghyr with a party of friends to 

 explore the Kurrukpoor Hills and to visit the sources of the Mun and 

 Anjun rivers, said to rise from hot springs. 



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