196 The Karrukpoor Hills. [No. 3. 



Rode to Lallajehangeera, seven miles, situated immediately under 

 the western face of the hills ; where there is an Indigo factory and 

 bungalow. The road after leaving the city of Monghyr, passes through 

 fine rice fields the whole way ; from Lallajehangeera is a beautiful view 

 of the hills to the south, with Maruk towering over all. Towards the 

 evening visited the Putturkhan valley, two miles from the bungalow 

 and near the village of Mosurgunje ; it is a small narrow valley or 

 cul-de-sac in the hills, about three quarters of a mile in length and a 

 quarter of a mile broad, across which and over the hills to the plains 

 on the East, runs a footpath ; the pass is called the Umjoorghat. 

 On entering the valley, which you do by a rather narrow entrance, the 

 valley is seen on the right and left and a hill in front closing the view ; 

 turning sharp round to the left you find yourself at the foot of a perpen- 

 dicular wall of a dazzling white quartz upwards of two hundred feet in 

 height, rent into a thousand parellelopipeds by deep fissures and by 

 veins of quartz, all cutting each other with the greatest angular exact- 

 ness, giving the rock the appearance of being faced with gigantic 

 hatchments whose lower and upper points are angles of 45°. This 

 wall faces the east. Immediately to the north east of this wall and 

 across the valley is an old quarry of hornblende, now no longer used ; 

 not that it is exhausted, but numerous other quarries being open in 

 different parts of these hills and yielding a superior stone, this one has 

 been neglected ; several large slabs of six and eight feet in length were 

 lying outside the valley, they had been quarried for a Mahajun, who 

 dying before he received them, they were left on the spot where they 

 happened to be when the news of his death reached the quarry men. 

 The hornblende is of a fine dark green or blue nearly approaching to 

 black, takes a fine polish, is easily carved, but occasionally fine blocks 

 are disfigured by nests of iron pyrites which being acted upon by the 

 atmosphere and rain, leave large stains of the red oxide of iron on the 

 surface. This hornblende rests upon a schistose rock : it is claystone, 

 which is also found on the opposite side of the hill. 



Iron-stone and reddle lay strewed about the valley. 



The hills about the quarry are covered with low jungle, stinging 

 nettles, called by the natives Rukusi, and Ferns. 



The quartz strata dip 5° to the West. 



3rd September. — Marched to Azimgunje, a small village ten or 



