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and form in different places, in a trifling degree. From one hundred and 

 twenty to one hundred and fifty feet above the edge of the contiguous vale, 

 may be said to be the general height of those that rise above the rank of 

 swells and knolls, whilst a hummock, a cone, or something of a truncated 

 cone, occurring in their otherwise even outline, and which serve to cha- 

 racterise them from their sand-stone companions, partially increases the 

 elevation. 



The sand-stone rock is very prevalent, as a mere mound or rise, con- 

 stantly having a village upon it, and situated often on the plain ground, 

 oftener on the edge of the plain ground, with a trap hill partly resting on 

 it. In particular parts of the country, however, ranges of sand-stone hills 

 occur, equalling, though never exceeding, in height and extent of range, 

 those of the trap, whilst they are to be easily distinguished from them by 

 their general evenness of outline ; by their having vertical or precipitous 

 escarpments at their ends, and on their sides to within twenty or thirty 

 feet of the top ; by the fallen masses lying about ; by often sharply-de- 

 fined, castellated, and mural appearances on their summits, and, in short, 

 are to be distinguished by all that which has been remarked of them as 

 exclusive, when occurring in other countries. They never appear inter- 

 stratified with any other mineral, when they occur in the tract of coun- 

 try under review. 



And these swells and hills of sand-stone and of trap, most particularly 

 the former, may often be observed sterile and bare, shewing nothing but 

 some coarse grass during the season of the rains, which gives to them, at 

 that time, a tinge of green ; but the vast majority of them are ever thickly 

 cloathed with vegetation, consisting of plants, and shrubs, and forest trees 

 of stunted growth, in particulars only differing from those of constant and 

 every- where occurrence ia India, and which have often been numbered 



and 



