XIL 



AN ACCOUNT 



OF SOME 



MINERALS, COLLECTED AT NAGPUR 



AND ITS VICINITY, 



With Remarks on the Geology, fc. of that part of the Country. 



By CAPTAIN F. JENKINS. 



Nag PUR, the capital of the Mahratta Sovereign of Berar, is in Lat. 

 21° 10', Long. 79" 14', of Arrowsmith. It is situated on the bank, and 

 nearly at the source of the insignificant stream, the Nag Nadi, from 

 which it has been considered to take its name ; but so small a rivulet 

 might be supposed to have been nameless when the founders first began 

 the town. 



The Nag Nadi often ceases, in the dry weather, to have a running 

 stream ; and, indeed, that it is now a stream at all almost entirely de- 

 pends on the large tank of J^elinker, formed by a mound across a small 

 valley in the trap hills, about three miles above the town. These hills 

 have few or no springs, and the tank is supplied with the water collected 

 from the adjoining eminences during the rains. 



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