196 MINERALS COLLECTED 



The ISlag Nadi, after a short course of twenty or twenty-five miles, 

 is lost in the much larger stream of the Kanhan, coming from the Deo- 

 gerh Hills, and the united stream falls into the Wyn Ganga, at about 

 the above distance from their junction. 



The principal source of the Wi/n Ganga rises south-east of Seam, 

 and after making a circle round the town on the south, proceeds in a 

 northerly direction, till it is finally turned south by a range of hills beyond 

 Chappaia, under which village it passes through a narrow gap between 

 basaltic columns, an impetuous, but a beautiful and considerable stream. 



The Wyn Ganga, after its junction with the Warda, near Chanda, 

 takes the name oi Pra^dta, and the joint stream is one of the most con- 

 siderable feeders of the Godaveri* The elevation of Nagpur, is about 

 one thousand feet above the sea, the temperature of its climate is gene- 

 rally equable throughout the year, and the seasons regular. 



The site of the town of Nagpur is very unfavourable: its want of 

 water in the dry season, the sterility and heat of the adjoining bare trap 

 hills at the same period, and the superabundance of water and rottenness 

 of the soil in the wet season would seem to indicate, that it could only 

 have been selected in connection with some sanctity attached to the hill 

 of Sitahaldi, at the foot of which it is situated. 



Geologically viewed, its site is, however, interesting, for it is the point 

 of junction of the great western trap formation with a great granitic 



formation, 



* Attempts were made some 3'ears ago to float timbers from the vicinity of Nagpur down 

 the Godaveri to the sea, with partial success, owing to tlie many rapids in the river ; but there are 

 no obstructions of any consequence, and which might not be removed at a very trifling expence. 



