i839] Geology of Bangalore, and of some other portions of Mysore. 



at all commensurate with the calculations, we may reasonably hope, soon 

 to see the plan extending itself in all directions. In this part of India 

 where we have no water carriage, by which to bring the corniaer.ial 

 produce of the interior to the const, good roads are indispensable to its 

 prosperity, and would prove n3t less advantageous to the native popu- 

 lation, than profitable to the European community by the extended 

 mart they would open for the introduction of British manufactures, but 

 which is now nearly closed, through the imperfection of the means of 

 intercourse. 



If you can find a place in the Madras Journal for these remarks their 

 insertion, will much oblige. 



Dear Sir, Yours truly 



Robert Wigkt„ 



fV. — Geology of Bcmgalore, and of some other portions of Mysore. — 

 By John Clark, Esq., m. d. Assistant Surgeon, I3^A Light Dragoons^ 



It is the remark of the eminent philosopher and physician Sir Thomas 

 Browne, that the world was made to be inhabited by beasts, but studi- 

 ed and contemplated by man. The world is here referred to in a 

 general sense, including the whole world of nature — -not in that local 

 and limited sense in which the geologist would view it, who may liter- 

 ally be said to study and contemplate the world — the earth — the matter 

 of which it is formed, and the arrangement of all its parts. It is on'y 

 however that portion comprehended in the command of its great Creator 



and let the dryland appear," which employs the study and contem- 

 plation of the geologist. That v.'hich the ocean covers, is, like many 

 mysteries in the science, hidden Kom our eyes, although stiil open to 

 conjecture. How a world has been formed, is not so much the study 

 of the geologist, as how it has been altered — and two modes have been 

 pursued in investigating this subject — that by conjecture, and that by 

 observation. The first was much employed in the infancy of the sci- 

 ence, and the last has happily replaced it. It is only by observing the 

 changes constantly taking place, and the forces or causes which may 

 lead to these changes, that correct and philosophical data can be 

 established. Too much must still be left to conjecture, and it is ex- 

 tremely easy by a well developed organ of constructiveness, to form a 



