56 Notes, chiefly Geological, of a Journey [Jan - . 



execution, in a prompt and determined manner, by Mr. Russell, caused 

 the dispersion of the whole gang ; many of whom were caught and 

 hanged on gibbets. Q 



Anukapilly, Feb. 9.— The country, between Toonee and this place, 

 is interspersed with numerous hills and knolls, all of them of a conical 

 shape, covered with thick shrubby vegetation. They are formed of the 

 gametic gneiss ; the only difference between this rock and that of other 

 localities, is that the felspar has the composition of that variety called 

 albite or cleavelandite. 



Close to our encampment was a hill, about four hundred feet above 

 the plain, near whose summit is a kind of grotto, over which hang two 

 enormous masses of gneiss, which has been converted into a tiny pago- 

 da, dedicated to the goddess Coocooresha, whose devotees must have 

 patience to ascend 295 steps cut in the rock, besides paying their 

 propitiatory offerings. The view enjoyed from the pagoda is magnifi- 

 cent. The whole hill is gneiss, and, in the large masses on the sides 

 and above the pagoda, the stratification is well marked, the strata dip- 

 ping eastwardly. 



Yellamungallee, Feb. 10.— The approach to this place is very- 

 picturesque, the village being surrounded by numerous hills rising 

 abruptly to various heights, and assuming the most romantic shapes. 

 The rock is gametic gneiss, most of the garnets being amorphous, and 

 decomposed into a cancelliform structure, to be explained" at a subse- 

 quent portion of this journal (No. 35). The quartz strata sometimes 

 resemble quartz-rock, and at others they are divided into many smaller 

 strata conformable to those of the rock. The colour of the quartz is 

 white, except in some few blocks, when it becomes of a rose colour 

 (No. 36). 



Some strata of this as well as of the other kinds of gneiss, are ex- 

 clusively formed either of garnets or felspar, which last mineral, when 

 decomposed, forms a coarse kind of porcelain earth (No. 37). The 

 strata near our camp had a vertical position, their direction, and 

 that of the other neighbouring hills, being about N. E. and S. W. 

 dipping west. These strata are easily separable, and the pagoda, in 

 ruins at its summit, is built of this gneiss, which is exceedingly well 

 adapted for such purposes, on account of the great facility of its 

 cleavage into slabs of any dimensions and form. The felspar has 

 often a laminar structure, and assumes a beautiful scarlet red colour 

 (No. 38). 



Cassimcotta, February 11.— Approaching this place, the hills are 

 composed of the gneiss previously described ; and the garnets are so 



