IN BUNDELKHAND. 2Q7 



ferruginous matter ; its pebbles are the same, its cement the same, it has 

 the same peculiarity of containing green quartz nodules so highly esteem- 

 ed as an augury by the natives, and its floor is of the same description 

 of sandstone. 



These mines vary in depth from tvrenty to fifty feet, and owing to the 

 stratum of the matrix being thinner (sometimes scarcely a span thick,) 

 they cannot be worked laterally as at Kamariya, they are therefore more 

 expensive, but their produce is said to cover the outlay and yield a pro- 

 fit. They are consequently esteemed, and hold a reputation nearly equal 

 to those of Kamanya. 



Sakeriya Mines.- 



The kaclia, or immature matrix, is excavated at the villages of Sake- 

 riya and Udesna, both situated on the counterscarp of the Panna hills. It 

 contains rounded pebbles of quartz, jasper, lydianstone, &c., but with 

 these are mixed more recent pebbles of white sandstone. It contains also 

 inuch white quartz gravel, called by the natives detla, but the cement of the 

 conglomerate instead of being silicious is a yellowish white clay, soft and 

 plastic when in its natural bed, but capable of acquiring the consistency 

 of mortar when exposed to the atmosphere, and when it contains ferrugi- 

 nous matter it is considered a good sign. The quartz pebbles are of the 

 fat and greasy variety, and the green kind so much esteemed in the rocky 

 matrix, is here entirely wanting. 



A shaft near Sakeriya which I examined, pierced through the follow- 

 ing beds ; 1st, eight feet vegetable soil ; 2d, eight ie^i piri matti, or com- 

 mon kankar, imbedded in yellow clay; 3d, four feet Idlkakru, or red iron- 

 stone gravel in ferruginous clay ; 4th, two feet detla, or white quartz gravel; 

 next followed sandstone, and then the kacha matrix ; The thickness of the 



detla 



