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North-east of Sugar the sand-stone often appears, but only as swells 

 rising little above the general level. The trap prevails until you have 

 passed Sanwa, three miles and a half, there it ceases entirely, distant 

 from Sugar forty-five miles. From Sanwa east to Sdtpdra and Pancham- 

 nagar in the lias, it is not more than nine or ten miles, and these places 

 are about the same distance from Hirapur, due north of them. A section 

 made from Hirapur to either of these places, and from them to Sanwa, 

 would be highly interesting, and most probably establish clearly the 

 relations of the granite, conglomerate, new red with its overlaying trap, 

 and the lower lias. 



Where the trap ceases, it does so abruptly. It possesses a vertical 

 thickness of about sixty feet, and it has been cut down to make the slope 

 easy for the road. At the foot of this short pass, which is still very steep, 

 is the sand-stone supporting the trap ; and this sand-stone is not now a 

 hard, glassy, difficultly frangible, splintery substance ; it is become a fine 

 grained, white, saccharine mineral, with a flat even fracture, coloured ex- 

 ternally a light red ; and with the exception of one fall, about half a mile 

 after leaving the trap land, it presents a very even surface, its blocks be- 

 ing freed of debris forming a pavement base for the road, a distance of 

 four miles ; the sides of the road meanwhile, shewing much overlying loose 

 matter with long grass intermixed, aud occasionally trees, as you advance, 

 approaching more and more to something of a timber size. Only one 

 small hamlet presents itself distant from the road side on the right hand, 

 perhaps a mile. At the expiration of this wild flat, three hills are crossed 

 in succession, composed of the sand-stone masses, rather sparingly and 

 loosely set together in much red clay, and quartzose matter, and covered 

 very densely with jungle and forest wood. These hills are of no great 

 height, but being separated one from the other by ravines or water-courses, 

 I they are short, steep, and troublesome at the points of separation. From 



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