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feet, even on the granite. The form of the Htrapur valley is oval; its 

 longest diameter is from west to east, and it is in that direction about a 

 mile ; from south to north it is not more than a quarter of that distance. 

 About the centre, or perhaps a little to the westward of it, is a large pond, 

 on the north bank of which is the village, and near it, or on the east side, 

 ' a small square Gerld or Fortlet. On two mounds of granite near the 

 Gerhi, also on a swell of the same on the south edge of the pond, no 

 where else, masses of gneiss, some half dozen in number, are sticking up, 

 which, from their slab form and slight inclination, oddly and much resem- 

 ble old tomb-stones in a church-yard. Both the gneiss and the granite if 

 they have any inclination dip to the S. W., but of the conglomerate, it 

 being a heap of clay and large stones, nothing very satisfactory can be 

 said ; here and there, amongst the rounded and angular masses, one or 

 two larger than the rest, would seem to stand up, conforming in position 

 to the gneiss, with their broader sides something sloping to the same 

 quarter as the granite, and the gneiss, viz. to the S. W, This sketch 

 brings the trap and sand-stone to their N. Eastern limits. 



At Hirapur is seen the granite, capped by heaps of ferruginous con- 

 glomerate, which conglomerate is connected with a stratum of iron ore, on 

 which the new red sand-stone is seen to repose : — All this within the space 

 of a few hundred yards. The new red sand-stone, from this point, conti- 

 nues, in the direction of Sdgar bare, and exposed, freed from any overlying 

 rock, a distance of six miles, or to where it is met by the trap, when for 

 forty-five miles the two together progressively increase in height, until at 

 Sdgar they have attained their greatest elevation, or are at least one thou- 

 sand feet higher than the spot, where the just noticed connection com- 

 menced. If a line be prolonged from Ilirapur through Bhilsa to Ha- 

 sandbdd, or that quarter of the compass towards which the primordial 

 rocks at Hirapur would seem to dip, such line will have in it almost all 



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