214 MINERALS COLLECTED 



The specimens from Seom (* Nos. 1, 2,) bring down the Chapara 

 basalt so far to the south ; but immediately bordering at Chaoii, is a bed 

 of iron clay, No. 5, resting most probably on gneiss ; its breadth there, on 

 the road to Nagpur, is trifling, and south of it commences a granitic 

 formation, which extends to that city. Nos. 3,t are from small mounds of 

 lime-stone of Seo?u, three or four miles, which I had no opportunity of 

 visiting. 



Sindtvara lies a little to the westward of north of Nagpur, and about 

 sixty or seventy miles from that city. The specimens of granite 1, 2, 3, 4, 

 are all from the immediate neighbourhood of the town. 



The gneiss of the valley of Nagpur extends by Kelode to Lodeleera, 

 overlayed in many parts by extensive but shallow masses of pudding- 

 stone, similar to that at Patansinhi and Sawnhr. After ascending the 

 last ghat, which was covered with trap, the rock met with is granite — • 

 and this I traced nearly to Baitiil — the descending ghat to the valley of 

 Baiti'd, and last few miles, only being of trap. The top of the valley of 

 Baitul is granite, and this formation extends north nearly to Hasana- 

 had, with some small interruptions of sand-stones and trap : the bottom of 

 the valley is trappean ; part of the great trap of the west, with which it is 

 connected by the valley of the Tapti, and the Gawilgerh and Asirgerh 

 ranges of mountains, and it is united by Mid t at and Pandurna, with the 

 hills of trap, whose extreme promontory in this direction east, is the hill 

 oi Skahald'i. About mid- way between Sindwara and Baitul, are some 

 romantic piles of massive and immense granite boulders, some, perhaps, 

 logan rocks, most of which have been consecrated by the superstition of 



the 



* Seom, Nos. 1, 2, Basalt, very similar to that of SUabaldL 

 f Granular secondary Lime-stone. 



