OF BUNDELKHAND, &c. ' 27 



From Keuti, I proceeded to the cataract of Chachai, where the fall of 

 water is three hundred and sixty-two feet ; but here is no other rock than 

 the lilac red, or purplish stratum, which varies as at Bouti and Keuti, 

 both in colour and consolidation as it approaches the surface. 



From Chachai to the cataract of the Tons river, is a short distance ; 

 the volume of water is greater than in the other cataracts, but the fall is 

 lesiS, being only two hundred feet, and the rock resembles that of Chachai 

 so exactly, that it needs no further description. 



These cataracts, though there is nothing stupendous about them, 

 have still enough of interest to recommend them to the notice of travel- 

 lers, and they have the advantage of being easily approached ; they are 

 sufficiently magnificent to occasion a slight impression of awe mingled 

 with pleasure, at first sight, and this feeling is perhaps enhanced, 

 by coming on the brink of the precipice almost unawares ; they are 

 also very picturesque, and deserve the talents and skill of an able artist. 



In a geological point of view, they are more interesting, for, from 

 their composition, it is evident, that the whole range of hills in which 

 they are situated, is a mass of sand-stone, they shew also, that there is a 

 valley in the subjacent strata in this part, by exhibiting distinctly the 

 plane of inclination of the variegated stratum, which being uppermost at 

 Bilohi, central at Bouti, lowest at Keuti, and disappearing below the 

 surface at Chachai, plainly denotes a subsidence, the axis of which is, 

 perhaps, somewhere about the Tons river, and this appears to be the 

 thickest part of the formation. 



From the cataract of the Tons river, I proceeded via Simmeriya, Bir- 

 sinhpur, Hatjii, Sohaivel, and Nagound, to Lohargong, and met with no 



other 



