r72 ' THE TRAP FORMATION OF 



is the entrance to a dense forest of timber trees, crowning the summits, 

 and sides of a very long winding sand-stone range, upon which the 

 road passes through Chiklod, KuUagerhi, and Akalpur, or a distance 

 of twenty-four miles, and in a westerly direction, and then turns south or 

 down the slope of the hills twenty miles, through Nezer Ganj and 

 Chouka to the alluvium of the Nervnada. The road descending is ex- 

 tremely rugged, and occasionally slippery from the size and position of 

 the slabs, it is in fact nothing more than a water course : It is sixty- 

 eight miles from Bhilsa to Hasandbdd. The edge of the alluvium 

 is three miles from the Nermada. The sand-stone peeps to day at 

 Hasandbdd, and is seen no more. Fifteen miles over the black basaltic 

 mould or alluvium brings you to Petraota, where commence primordial 

 rocks, ending in the granite of ISimpdni, Shahpur, and JBeituL* 



I ought to have stated, that the trap range branching off at Garspur, 

 approaches very near to Raisin, and at JBanclior forms the eastern 

 boundary of the small valley there ; and then after bending about, in a 

 southerly direction, and skirting the sandstone, it proceeds eastwards by 

 the source of the Desaon, Sirmao, Sfc, forms, in fact, the southern 

 boundary of the trap formation as described. 



Northwest of /Sflo-ftr, or in the direction of Seronj, and north, or in 

 the direction of Maltoim, still the country is precisely the same, except 

 in the latter case, the sand-stone hills predominate. Eastward of Sugar 

 the trap is at Sanowda, — -so is it at Shahpur, or a march beyond, and 

 ceases only near the nameless rivulet between that place and Pathaiiah. 



North-east 



* Between Kaisler and the Bhora Nadi there is coal. The Towa Nadi should be follow^ed to 

 its source, or until it is shewn from whence it receives the coal fragments found in its bed. 



