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turning off from Sitdhaldi to the north-west and some small insulated 

 hills of trap are scattered over the plain towards Kliordri. 



Oil:; 



Below the dolomite hill and adjoining to it, are the coloured fine- 

 grained dolomites, and the specimens 3 and 4, are in connection with 

 these. To the west and north, round the base of the hill, are the 

 konkars, (B) large quantities of which are dug up for lime. Some of these 

 specimens are internally crystallized. 



The large-grained dolomite is quarried, but not extensively, for mar- 

 ble blocks, and for lime for white-wash ; the blocks may be cut out to al- 

 most any size. Immediately about the hill at Khordn, there are no 

 other than lime-stone rocks in masses, but a vast variety of scattered 

 pieces of stone, as gneiss, granite, quartz, &c. 



KAMTI. 



To the westward of the granite hills, and in line with them at a short 

 distance, on a rising swell, Colonel Adams formed the cantonments of 

 the Bengal troops on the banks of the river Kanhdn.^ Opposite, and im- 

 mediately on the bank, facing the greater part of the cantonments, was 

 the sand-stone No. l,t described by Dr. Voysey, as a sand-stone with an 

 argillaceous cement and specks of mica. The sand-stone had, apparently, 

 a dip south towards the cantonments, under the river, but none was to be 



traced 



(B) They cover a space about two hundred yards square, in a continued mass, and to a consi- 

 derable depth, " pure Carbonate of lime." — Dr. Voysey. 



* The Kanhdn rises in the Deogerh hills, running thence nearly south, till it reaches the plain, 

 and then turns nearly due east, and falls into the Wyn Ganga, near Bandara. 



f Some varieties of this sand-stone, Dr. V. described as " sand-stone with well disseminated 

 iron glance, one specimen resembling siliceous schist." 



At the base of the sand-stone, in the river bed, were some extensive beds of calcareous con- 

 glomerate, which burned into a dirty lime. -'.vitofoaolx; riJiw sji 



