THE SAGAR DISTRICT. Qg 



and alone,) such as once probably was more intimately connected with 

 the amygdaloids, and which now for ages have in the main resisted the 

 force of time and exposure. The moment you are clear of this fallen mat- 

 ter at the foot of the pass, you step on the sand-stone, which is exposed 

 to-day in the whole axillary part, the bounding trap ranges resting upon 

 it. It is uneven, much covered with fragments ; swells and hillocks ap- 

 pear upon it, and amongst these that on which is placed the village of 

 Garspur, higher than the rest somewhat, but not so high as the contigu- 

 ous trap. It is situated about a mile and a half from the foot of the pass, 

 and it possesses some little length, or at its foot the road runs about half a 

 mile, in a W. S. W. direction. After leaving the red ground, and coming 

 on the black soil again, the sand-stone still continues to attract occasional 

 attention, protuding up through the trap, until you have passed the dis- 

 tance of four miles. From this point, for twenty miles, there is a general in- 

 clination of the trap land to the JBetwa^ the hills being farther, and farther 

 removed from the view, as you advance in the large open cultivated plain, 

 at the W. S. W. extremity of which stands Bhilsa on the east bank of the 

 JBetwa. Here the sand-stone occurs as a large plat of some hundred yards 

 diameter, generally even with the trap ; but in the central part, it sudden- 

 ly rises up, and forms a curious clump about one hundred and twenty feet 

 high and flat at the top, where there is just sufficient area for a Mos- 

 lim tomb, and another small building or two, remarkable in the distance 

 from their white appearance. If Bhilsa be taken as a point, and a radius 

 of six miles swept about the west bank of the Betwa, it would every where 

 pass over sand-stone hills ; they are much clustered thereabouts. Khana- 

 kerah where is seen a very anciently sculptured rock is situated amongst 

 them. , The town of Bhilsa is placed on the east bank of the Betwa, 

 between it and the solitary sand-stone rise alluded to. In a N. ^Y. direc- 

 tion a bed of iron clay slopes oft* this rise, so that the Betiva and the 

 Bheis, which joins the Betiva a little northward, cuts through it, and the 



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