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2d. The feather bed appearance of Maccullocli. Drg. II. 



3d. The prismatical fractured summit. Drg. III. 



4th. The tors and logging stones, ^Yllich give a wild and fantas- 

 tic appearance to a country, and which liave been lately mistaken 

 for real boulders, but to which they have no geological relation 

 whatever. 



This singular structure has seized on the native imagination, 

 and the monkey god Hanumaun is said to have piled up these 

 stones, as spare ammunition in the great war of the Eamayana. 



Drawing lY., marks on single block. — Drawing Y., one block 

 piled on another. — Drawing YI., four and five tiers of blocks — the 

 last two may be deemed rare, two or three being the most com- 

 mon. 



Drawing YII. — Shows a cave in the sienite extending inwards 

 for fifty or sixty feet and about two and half feet in height — this is 

 not common — fragmentary portions of rock sometimes form pseu- 

 do caves. The natural aspect of the Circar is certainly hilly, and 

 the country about Warungul, though little elevated beyond the 

 usual seventeen hundred feet above the level of the Sea which 

 ipaarks the eastern portion of the Deccan, is the watershed— the 

 ' divortio aquarum' from whence both the Godavery and Kistna are 

 supplied with the sources of tributary streams. At the southern 

 extremity, a group of hiUs run east and vrest,,and communicate 

 with the hills of the Yizianuggur talooka. 



Ten miles to the N. W. of Yv^ arungul another group, the Chan- 

 dragiri .hills, spring from the plains with pinnacled summits. The 

 Iron hills, as they are called, fourteen miles due west of Warungul, 

 and of which a representation is given in Drawing YIII. — form a 

 double range, varying north and south, with a gorge between. 

 The ridge towards the east (the one represented) terminates 

 abruptly after a course of four or five miles, but the western 

 doubles in itself and throw^s out a spur to the north-west. There 

 are besides smaller groups as at Hunnemcondah — but these, as 

 elsewhere the isolated hill, 'is the prominent feature of the land- 

 scape. On the other side of the Chandragiri group, and towards 

 the PakhaU lake, the country gets flatter and uninterrupted by 

 hills, whether single or clustered. 



These may be divided into the black, red, and 



Soils. - *^ ' ' 



