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Sketches of the Meteorology, eye. 



[Oct. 



and their direction nearly north-west by west. They can be traced to 

 within a few feet of the sandstone, which forms the summit of the 

 hill, and which dips towards the north-west, at an angle of about 40°. 



Thirdly, A small range of sandstone, or rather quartz hills, near 

 Kulladgh.ee, is divided in several places by ravines. In walking up 

 one of these ravines, you have the quartz hills on both sides, and can 

 observe their strata inclined at a small angle, while the bed of the 

 ravine along which you walk consists of the clayslates and greywackes, 

 which are found in all the low parts of the adjoining country, and the 

 strata of which are mostly vertical. 



I have never seen the sandstone conformable to the transition rocks ; 

 but I do not mean to say that this may not sometimes be the case. The 

 above observations however, are, I think, quite sufficient to shew that 

 it is very often unconformable, and may belong to one or other, or in- 

 clude both the red sandstones of the Wernerian geognosy. 



The following striking appearances are presented by the sandstone 

 of Badamy. The hills at that place, composed to their very bases of sand- 

 stone, have perfectly even summits, and are surrounded on all sides by 

 vertical precipices, descending, in many instances, completely to the val- 

 ley, which is covered with fine sand, the debris of the adjoining hills. 

 The sandstone strata are generally horizontal. The precipices have a 

 height of probably two hundred feet* ; and the hills are, in many 

 places, completely divided by rents from top to bottom, and are thus 

 separated into a number of huge distinct masses. Some of these 

 masses which are next to the plain, have a slight inclination forwards, 

 and appear as if a very slight force would be sufficient to occasion 

 their complete degradation. 



The two small foils of Badamy are built upon these precipitous 

 sandstone hills. Next the plain these forts are protected by a pre- 

 cipice of two hundred feet; and, on the opposite sides, they are de- 

 fended by deep rents, which sepawile them from the adjoining parts of 

 the hill. The only access to the forts is up through the rents already 

 mentioned. Upon entering these at the bottom, you have on each side 

 of you immense walls of rock, from one to two hundred feet high, 

 and alTordiii^ a passage of only a few feet in width. The rents are 

 less deep you advance ; and the ascent is generally by means of 

 steps cut in tile solid reck. 



A cave, the roof of wliich is supported by pillars, and the sides carv- 

 ed with representations of some, of (hz Hindoo deities, ix excavated in 

 the sandstone of Badamy. it is &o$ how sver, to foe con pared, in point 

 of size, with the caves of Elephants or Ellora* 



* I state tliis only from memory : i t must therefore be considered merely as .■»•.■> ap- 

 proximation* 



