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and described. And lastly, the flat and compressed surfaces ofbothkinds 

 of hill, are often of considerable breadth, and on the summits of the trap 

 hills, not those of the sand-stone, more especially in the angular parts 

 of the trap hills, as they bend about, may be seen a patch or cultivated 



spot. 



With regard to the general level of this land above the sea, I may 

 observe that there is a peak shooting up from a trap range to the eastward 

 of Raisen, which attains an elevation of something more than 2500 feet; 

 but the hills of Raisen are much less, so also is the sand-stone range of 

 hills on the north bank of the Nennadd at Hasanahad. Sugar, upon the 

 whole, is the highest part in this tract. The centre of the cantonments 

 at Sdgar is 1983 feet above the level of the sea by the barometer, and the 

 hill at the mint of Sdgar, which is about a mile from the last named point, 

 is something more than 2300 feet by trigonometrical calculation. I have 

 before remarked, that Sdgar and its neighbourhood is a confined hilly tract, 

 and that towards the east, and the west, and the north, the country opens ; 

 and it is, in fact, taking Sdgar as a radiating point, in those directions that 

 the land opens that the general elevation of it above the sea decreases ; — 

 but not so much westward or towards Rhopalpur, as the general elevation 

 of the upper plains of Jf«/?t7«, is 1650 feet, dindi Omatwara, in which _SAo- 

 palpur is situated, belongs to those plains ; — ^neither is it so much towards 

 the lower lias formation of the Hattah and Garakota district, or eastward, 

 because the elevations there are, in general, about 1500 feet. It is in the nor- 

 thern quarters that the principal, and a rapid diminution in height is to be 

 observed, for the Jla/^OM?i pass, nearly due north of Sdgar, and six and thirty 

 miles distant, is only 1000 feet above the level of the sea, by trigonometri- 

 cal calculation -.—Seronj, to the westward of north from the same place, is 

 800, and Hirapur, to the eastward of north, between 1000 and 1100 feet, 

 by the same calculation. From all this it is to be inferred, that the elevation 

 fei about 



