PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION. 



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Jabalpur district, with those of MM. Ball and Griesbach in the Gurjat 

 States of Chutia Nag-pur. 



The limits to the west and east are the two tributaries of the Son, the 

 Mahanadi 1 and the Rer; the boundary to the north is the boundary 

 of the supra-Barakar rocks, and the extension southwards is demarcated 

 by a varying fringe of stratigraphical deposits. As thus defined, the 

 different rock formations occupy an area of nearly 3,200 square miles, 

 of which about 870 are included in the zemindaries of Korea and Jhilmili. 



The leading title that has already been applied to denote this area, 

 namely, the Rewah Gondwana basin is the most 



Name of area. 



comprehensive and convenient one that has been 

 proposed, and I would certainly retain it in preference to amplifying 

 for the mere purpose of including the territory which is beyond the fiscal 

 limits of the Rewah State. Mr. Ball gave the separate name of Jhilmili 

 coal-field to the coal bearing rocks of the Jhilmili estate, and Lala 

 Hira Lai proposed the designation of Koreagarh for a small outlier in 

 Korea; but as these are integrant portions of the Gondwana basin, 

 they have been subordinated to the weightier claim , of Rewah, as a 

 representative title, and in this way share the lot of the Umaria, Korar, 

 Sohagpur and other coal centres. 



The physical aspect of the country is very 



Physical aspect. 



varied, but its most prominent^ characteristic is 

 its hilliness. 



The chief highlands are, those to the north, marked by the famous 



hill fortress of Bandogarh and the numerous detached peaks and lesser 



ranges belonging to the same system, extending far to the east 



and west beyond our area; the uplands of Korea/ the watersheds of 



the Johilla, Son, and Hestho rivers, and the great plateau of the 



Deccan (Dakhan) trap to the south. There is a gradual rise from west 



to east, and from north to south. At Umaria in 80° 54' E. . Long. 



and 23° 23' N. Lat., which I mention in likelihood of its becoming a 



, , , place of repute, the height of the plain above 



Level ubove sea. t A 



sea level is 1,4(90 feet; and thence there is a slow 



1 This is not to be confounded with the greater Mahanadi of Cuttack (Kulak). 



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