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ends of the hills joined by a low neck to them, are mostly amorphous, and 

 then composed of the harder materials ; — but often they are something 

 of a cone or a truncated cone, and their component matter soft. They are 

 here of no importance, having been for ages exposed to day they have 

 become worn at length into that shape which best resists much further 

 demolition, and so now remain. 



It is almost superfluous to add that no fossile remains have been 

 found by me. 



The following is a summary of the foregoing sketch : The latitude 

 of Hirapur is occupied by a primitive range, and so is the skirt of the 

 alluvium south of the Nermada ; in the longitude of Udayapur will be 

 a western limit, and a granite range, crossing the Nermada at Jeiel- 

 pur, and stretching northerly, forms the eastern boundary. This basin 

 elongated E. andW. formed of primitive rocks, has, in its interval or 

 hollow, the sandstone deposit, in some one or other of its forms, exhibit- 

 ed nearly throughout ; — obscurely as when seen through the trap, or thinly 

 covered with a coating of lias ; or openly as in the hundred and ten mile 

 line from Sugar to Jebelpnr. From Udayapur, oy the western limits to 

 the central part, Sdgar, the trap rocks blacken the surface, and at Sugar 

 they rest on the sandstone, which appears not to have much intermediate 

 between it, and the proximate primitive rocks. It is a continuation, and 

 a sort of north eastern bend of the rock of the Malabar Coast from Baroda 

 as a point, and itself contains more, perhaps, than tifty-four thousand 

 square miles. 



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