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SKETCH OF THE 



and sandstone slates ; and as high as these rocks occur the slope, though 

 abrupt, is uniform. Immediately resting on these is the breccia which 

 presents the perpendicular crag, just alluded to, and which rises from the 

 slope as in the sketch beneath, — the summit being occupied by a table 

 land of considerable breadth, which gives rise to the even and uniform 

 aspect which the summit of these hills present. 



This is particularly the case throughout the whole extent of the 

 boundary range betwixt Mewar and Hardoii, and the hill of Chitor 

 affords a noble example of this kind of structure. It is surrounded 

 on all sides by high perpendicular crags, forming a natural forti- 

 fication, which, till it was taken by Akber, gained it the name of 

 impregnable,— a name which the natives of this country still fondly 

 apply to it. The rock forming the summit of this hill and of the 

 boundary range, is distinctly stratified, the strata being waved or 

 saddle-shaped, — the elevated plain on which Chttor stands, exhibit- 

 ing several smooth round swells, with corresponding hollows between, 

 and the strata appearing to dip in a directly contrary direction on ascend- 

 ing from the east to what they do on ascending from the west. From the 

 summit of this hill, we could observe a similar plain occupying a corres- 

 ponding position on the boundary range. The diagram below will give 

 some idea of the way in which the strata are arranged at Chuor. 



