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outlines around ; and the transection of the range being here com- 

 pleted, its eastern flank extends with well-sustained elevation to the 

 southward, presenting no marked deviation from the lately prevalent 

 characters of form. Rare granitic elevations are scattered over the plain 

 that succeeds, and beyond a tract of arid and incumbered wastes, the sur- 

 face becomes less difficult, with altered vegetable characters ; hornblende 

 schist alternates with quartz rock in wide undulating courses, and around 

 Narhailpilli/, the granite is determined to crested summits, by the occa- 

 sionally vertical disposition of its beds. Towards Hylepdmali, a sur- 

 face simply granitic, recurs, and felspar predominates in the soWoi Soria- 

 pet, while hornblende rock indistinctly stratitied, and of massive texture, 

 occasionally appears. The low, bald hills of Mungal, Kamerahanda, 

 and Godaveram, slowly descending through laminar disintegration to the 

 superficial level, are frequently pervaded b}^ veins of jasper, becoming 

 cancellated on exposure : the materials of the rock and vein frequently 

 intermingle, but while fragments of the former appear isolated in 

 the latter, both unaltered and in the grades of assimilation, the 

 venous matter does not occur under reciprocal circumstances in the 

 rock. In some instances also, through combination of the prismatic 

 and bedded structures, the granitic surfaces in this district afibrd 

 tabular aggregations of short vertical prisms, the rock varying in 

 constitution betwixt gneiss and splintery hornstone. Immediately 

 beyond the village of Shair Blahonied Pet, an extensive mass of Horn- 

 blende Schist is disposed in the great basis both in the manner of inter- 

 ference and of superposition : and a stream bed displays the course of an 

 emanating vein in which the felspar, having by this accident of locality, 

 passed to some depth to the state of indurated clay, this portion of the 

 rock assumes the constitution and aspect of grey wacke, while the prin- 

 cipal bed remains an unaltered greenstone. In tlic water-course were 

 abundant fragments of compact red iron ore, rolled, ^\■illl vitreous ul i/.o, 

 with occasional masses of calcareous tufa and of ([uart/., iiicliuling 



