OF BUNDELKHAND, kc. 35 



From Jehelpur, I returned to Tendukaira, by another route along the 

 metalliferous range of hills, which it was my business to examine ; but 

 I refrain from giving any account of its mines, for the same reason which 

 I have ailed ged in my account of Tendukaira. I must also defer sending 

 a map of this portion, which I have constructed on a larger scale, in or- 

 der to shew the position of the mines, until a future opportunity ; in the 

 mean time, I may observe, that a part of the southern barrier of the val- 

 ley of the Nennada river (like the northern, opposite to Tendukaira, Sir- 

 moiv, &c.) is composed of trap rocks, the contour of which I have laid 

 down to the extent of eighty miles, and I trust, that a future opportuni- 

 ty will enable me to complete the whole. 



The result of my inquiries respecting this eastern deposite of over- 

 lying rocks, is, that it extends southward, as far as Chaparah, or 

 Seoni, and thence eastward, towards Mandela, Amerakantak, and Sohagpur ; 

 but whether it unites with the great central mass, I could not learn ; 

 it is somewhat harder than the ti^ap of Sdgar, but does not essen- 

 tially differ from it in character, as the accompanying specimens will 

 shew ; but it differs greatly in its substratum, which is here granite or 

 gneiss. 



In the re-entering angles of the trap hills, the occasional re-appear- 

 ance of the primitive range may be traced, and in a cluster of such hills, 

 about one mile south of JBograi, the rock is composed of mica, quartz, 

 compact felspar, and chlorite, intimately intermixed in fine grains, and 

 somewhat friable; in the same hills also, is a conglomerate of the 

 same formation, containing quartz - pebbles, much rounded, and worn 

 by the attrition of water, but no fragments of green-stone or basalt, 

 although the hills in question are nearly surrounded by rocks of the trap 

 family. 



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