486 Stat is tics of the drear of Dowluiahad, [No. 



tinged by chlorite : to these may be added the several varieties of 

 quartz. The zeolitic minerals are principally fallen in with below 

 the hills generally along the beds and banks of the larger nuUas, 

 where beautiful varieties of the foliated and radiated description 

 abound. 



Calcareous conglomerates overlaid by nodular basalt may be seen 

 in the exposed banks of the Sewna river at Kunhur ; the buried 

 masses are rolled and water worn and similar ii\ their nature to the 

 present shingle of the river bed. 



The natural diversities in the aspect of the 

 Natural Aspect. ■, , . , . 



country are great, wide undulating plains occupy- 

 ing the south and west, oifering a far tamer description of scene- 

 ry than is observed towards the north and east, where the Circar 

 is seen rising into an elevated region, crossed by a succession of 

 narrow ranges, whose sides though bare and rugged, enclose val- 

 leys and dells of singular beauty and fertility. Their perennial 

 streams produce a constant verdure, in pleasing contrast to the arid 

 look the plains put on shortly after the ceasing of the rains, the raoun- 

 lain streams escaping to the low lands, are all seen trending their 

 course towards the great bed of the Godavery in which direction the 

 whole of the plains decline ; a low stunted vegetation principally 

 composed of Cassia, Acacia, Capparis, Mimosa, Prosopis, and Ca- 

 rissa, prevail upon the plains ; whilst proceeding northward, weli 

 wooded districts appear with a jungle vegetation, often present 

 among the ravines and gorges of the higher ghats. 



Though a very considerable proportion of the surface be occupied 

 by mountainous tracts and soil of a barren nature, still allowing for 

 this deduction it contains much land of a very superior nature, ma- 

 nifested in the luxuriance of the growth of the cane and poppy and 

 heavy corn crops raised throughout the Circar. 



The cultivated soils are of two descriptions ; that prevailing on 

 ihe higher tracts is generally of a heavy rich aluminous character 

 whilst on the plains it is principally a light and fertile loam ; 

 in either case of no great depth and resting upon a rocky sub- 

 stratum. 



These two soils are derived from the wearing away of the surface 

 Tocks; the basalt going Lo form the stffF dark soil, whilst the 

 amygdaloid wacken disentegrates. into a friable earth : the lime and 



