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Notices of Books ; 



[July 



ble has been taken to procure it in a better state than that in wliich it 

 appears on the surface. 



" General features of Central India with reference to the distribu- 

 tion of minerals. — As general views regarding geology of India may- 

 render these reports more interesting to some, we may be excused in 

 tills place for resuming the sul.'jecf, leaving economical and statistical 

 details to be progressively supplied in future reports in which wo. may 

 hope to have the aid of persons on the spot; in a field so wide and 

 diversified, nothing short of general exertion can be expected to elicit 

 results at once practical, without therefore iTiaking such objects an 

 exclusive aim on the present occasion, it may not be devoid of ultimate 

 advantage to endeavour to secure as general an interest as possible in 

 behalf of the inquiries in which we are engaged. 



" The table lands of Central India are composed of a mountain group 

 extending from the Gulf of Cambay and the Guzerat to Mongir, where 

 it is interrupted by the Gangetic delta in the manner already des- 

 cribed. 



" The central chain of the group is named Yindhya, it extends from 

 73° 30' to 88^ E. longitude, chiefly under the 23^ and 24« N. lat., hav- 

 ing on its south the valley of the Nerbudda, and on the north, the 

 table lands of Malwa. 



" Two lateral ranges extend on either side of this — that of the south 

 forming on this direction the boundary of the Nerbudda valley is named 

 the Sautpoora range. It is connected cn the east with the table lands 

 of Chota Nagpore, and on the opposite extremity the western 

 Ghauts. 



" The northern side of the table land of Central India strictly so 

 called, is immediately bounded by the Chittore range which is merely 

 separated from it by the valley of the Chumbul river, so as scarcely to 

 be marked as a distinct physical feature. The eastern extremity of 

 this range approaches to within a few miles of Agra, and terminates 

 under 78^ E. long. 27° N. lat. while its western extremity is connected 

 with a south-western prolongation of the table lands in 25^ N. lat. 

 74° E. longitude. 



" There is yet the extreme northern range named Aravully, the 

 western limit of which is intersected by the 73'* E. long, a little above 

 the 24'? N. lat. from thence it extends in a N. E. direction to Delhi and 

 Hansi in the 77^ E. long, and 29^ N, lat. 



" Between the Chittore and the Aravully ranges the valley of Me war 

 is situated, Oodepore at its western, and Ajmere at the north-eastern 

 extremity. 



