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common hankar imbedded in yellow clay, which occasionally mingling 

 with it, forms, another ^description of matrix which being calcareous, is 

 called hadda ; the diamonds of the glen of the Bdgin river, have evidently 

 been transported thither from their native beds, and in all probability the 

 gangue in which they now rest in the basin of the waterfall, greatly re- 

 sembles the cascalho of the Brazils, or that of Saynbhelpur, in Southern 

 India. 



The pahha, or rocky matrix, is very limited, stretching generally from 

 Kamariya to Srijpur, along the course of the Bagin river. It is excavated 

 at Kamariya, JBijiptir, Sargari, Myra and Etiva; there is also a small 

 deposit of it near the town of Panna, but at Srijpur, from the effects of 

 denuding causes, it lies at the surface, and a very satisfactory section of 

 it is laid bare in the bed of a small rivulet about one mile west of the vil- 

 lage, where it appears to be a gritstone, composed of white quartz gravel, 

 cemented by silicious matter, and containing rounded pebbles of quartz, 

 jasper, hornstone, lydianstone, &c. Thus it forms a conglomerate, which 

 passes by gradual transition into silicious sandstone. It is readily dis- 

 tinguished from its associated rock, differing greatly from it, in as much 

 as the sandstone in which it is found, has a martial argillaceous cement, 

 and closely resembles that which forms the upper layer of the cascade of 

 the Bdgin river. 



Kamariya Mines. 



The most noted mines of this description of matrix are those of Ka- 

 mariya and Panna ; at the former place they are on an average about fif- 

 teen feet deep, and in one which I examined, the beds of slaty marl were 



two 



* At Bangla, Bakhtapur, S^c. 

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