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Report on the Goomsiir, Dtispullah 



{April 



at the point where it escapes eastward from the base of the hills to 

 the main river. 



Ghokapaud stands in an open cultivated expanse of oblong figure, a 

 couple of miles in diameter and parted from the line of ghauts by a 

 low ridge and intervening valley. 



The direct descending slope from the ridge of partition to BoTopall 

 by Bonee, is less inclined than that of Gattigooda, less rugged, and 

 occasionally clear from forest, and well cultivated. 



Beyond Boropall, the great depression enters the main ridge of the 

 ghauts. 



To Adnygurra, it is a mountain chasm of bold and picturesque 

 features, twelve miles in length, and from one to two in breadth. 



It is but slightly inclined. The bounding ridges rise from 500 to 

 1200 feet in height, generally abl'upt, occasionally craggy. 



The channel of the stream lies in a precipitous and rarely accessible 

 ravine. 



The saul forest is continuous and undiversified. 



Baringhi stands on a fertile slope at the entrance of the pass. The 

 rich fields of Raneegunze spread in a cul de sac in its centre. 



Adnygurra stands where an open valley leading from the heights of 

 Bengrikia and Borogootza meets the great pass. 



A confused ravine, at one point straitened to a narrow gorge, leads 

 clown the fourth and last of the chain of dividing slopes by Poorna Cut- 

 tack into the alluvial plain of the Mahanuddy. 



The alluvial plain of the Mahanuddy. — A level expanse varying from 

 five to seven miles in breadth, sweeps between the southern bases of the 

 hills and the right bank of the river-~to the westward, with an unin- 

 terrupted course ; upon the east, broken by transecting ridges which 

 soon conceal the direction of the stream. 



Upon the northern bank, the lofty and picturesque summits of Sohn- 

 pore, Sumbhulpore and Autmullick form a rudely marked semi-circu- 

 lar amphitheatre, whose extremities 30 miles apart, rest upon the 

 river as on a chord-line. 



This irregular arch includes a series of low transverse ranges, of 

 the undulating hill-group, which comprehends the clay ironstone depo- 

 sit of Autmullick and Rhadaeole. 



A lofty mountain mass, which appears to be the prolongation of the 

 great central ridge of the ghauts, forms its eastern extremity. 



In the alluvial plain of Boad, the forest decreases in density from the 



