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I undorstood it, and of the Krattan of an an- 

 cient Raja; in ciossing the plain ficlds undcr 

 culture and flooded^ we were repeatedly obiigrd 

 to get out of our chairs and trudge through the 

 jnud for thedistanceof a mile. Tliis range of hills 

 runs in a direction nearly South West, parallel 

 to the piain or valley of Brambana^ and in height 

 and appearance resembles sonie of those low 

 ridges we meet wilh in the Deckan, wherc the red 

 Porous Stone tcrminates in a soft calcareous sub- 

 ^tancCj as near Toljapoor^ Culburga^ &c. on as~ 

 cending the side of the hili we met masses of 

 grevish stone of this calcareous spixies, which 

 seem to be of Volcanic Origin, below 

 the first layers of which we sometimes observed a 

 \ein of brittle earth, whitish^ fractured bv manj 

 lines. — The first attempt of our Guides to go 

 Strait forward being erroneous, we returned, and 

 ^vere conducted along the brow of the ridge^ ia 

 a drizzling rain, for about two miles, wliich 

 howeverthe toil and rain, indiiced us to reckon at 

 three ; at last we were led off by a winding path 

 cut among the luxuriant herbagc and young 

 teak trees, by a kind of opening in the ridge, 

 which finallv terminated in an ascent to a wall 

 and mass of rock, into which is cut a small 

 chamber of about four ïeti and a half high^ 

 twelve feet by nice, vrith a wide dcor, half 



