JULY — SEPT. 1857.] at Kota on the Godavery, 
in cliaracter and continue to Aheree, the extremity of my journey 
in this direction. 
Such was the information afforded in the course of my journey 
up the river; I had passed, in travelling from the Doomgoodiem to 
the Enchampully barriers, over a series of conglomerates and sand- 
stones, and subsequently •beds of limestone, having a tolerably uni- 
form dip to the S. W. and from Enchampully westward, over what 
appeared to be the same series in an inverse order commencing 
with the limestone and haviiffg an inclination to the S. E. or in the 
opposite direction^ all of these dipping towards an imaginary line 
or synclinal axis, — t^is line passes through a point midway between 
Yeytoor and Waragooroo, in a direction slightly to the westward of 
north. 
That they were the same series was evident, from the order of su- 
perposition of the various beds, and from the fact of the identity 
of the limestone being clearly made out at two points, viz. at Yey- 
toor and at Kota, by the abundance of fish scales of the same cha- 
racter being found, at these two places. 
In the town of Mahadeopore, a red sandstone is seen cropping 
out, with the same hard iron veins traversing it as in the neigh- 
bouring river bank, and still further to the S. W. about 3 miles 
from Mahadeopore, a small range of hills called Guntay Magoota, 
presents on its western side, a well exposed section of 200 to 300 
feet in height. These beds are sandstone throughout in strata of 
8 feet and upwards in thickness, the lower beds being very hard 
and compact : the upper beds as seen at the top of the hill, con- 
tain angular fragments of indurated clay, white or reddish in color 
or composed of thin layers, alternately white and reddish ; — sandstone 
containing these fragments of clay, is to be seen near Nargarum, 
south of Yeytoor, it no doubt is the same bed, dipping from this 
place under the limestone to Guntay hills. * 
The beds at Guntay dip to the N. E, about 15° to 20°, they are 
much niore uniform in the direction of their dip than on the river 
bank, where their close proximity to the line of the fault running 
