III. 



TPIE TRAP FORMATION 



OF THE 



SAGAR DISTRICT, 



And of those Districts Westward of it, as far as JBhopalpur, on the 

 Banks of the River Newas, in Omatwara. 



By captain S. COULTHARD, 



Of the Bengal Artillery. 



A GENERAL idea of the number of sand-stone hills, rising through the 

 trap formation of the district about to be described, may be formed from 

 the number of villages ; for, although a few villages may be seen, situ- 

 ated on the slopes of trap hills, the natives, as far as possible, have 

 avoided placing their habitations on rocks of this formation, and there 

 being fully as many sand-stone hills, without villages, as trap with them, 

 it may safely be said, that there are as many isolated patches of sand- 

 stone in these districts, as there are villages. 



At Panchamnagar and Satparah, places marked in the accompanying 

 sketch, there is the lias, and about nine miles west of those places, or at 

 Samva, the trap and sand-stone. The same may be said of Pattariya 



and 



