july — sept. 1857.] at Kota on the Godatery. 



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in character and continue to Aheree, the extremity of my journey 

 in this direction. 



Such was the information afforded in the course of my journey 

 up the river ; I had passed, in travelling from the Doomgoodiem to 

 the Enchampully barriers, over a series of conglomerates and sand- 

 stones, and subsequently beds of limestone, having a tolerably uni- 

 form dip to the S. W. and from Euchampully westward, over what 

 appeared to be the same series in an inverse order commencing 

 with the limestone and having an inclination to the S. E. or in the 

 opposite direction, all of these dipping towards an imaginary line 

 or synclinal axis, — this line passes through a point midway between 

 Yeytoor and Waragooroo, in a direction slightly to the westward of 

 north. 



That they were the same series was evident, from the order of su- 

 perposition of the various beds, and from the fact of the identity 

 of the limestone being clearly made out at two points, viz. at Yey- 

 toor and at Kota*, by the abundance of fish scales of the same cha- 

 racter being found, at these two places. 



In the town of Mahadeopore, a red sandstone is seen cropping 

 out, with the same hard iron veins traversing it as in the neigh- 

 bouring river bank, and still further to the S. W. about 3 miles 

 from Mahadeopore, a small range of hills called Guntay Magoota, 

 presents on its western side, a well exposed section of 200 to 300 

 feet in height. These beds are sandstone throughout in strata of 

 8 feet and upwards in thickness, the lower beds being very hard 

 and compact : the upper beds as seen at the top of the hill, con- 

 tain angular fragments of indurated clay, white or reddish in color 

 or composed of thin layers, alternately white and reddish ; — sandstone 

 containing these fragments of clay, is to be seen near Nargarum, 

 south of Yeytoor, it no doubt is the same bed, dipping from this 

 place under the limestone to Guntay hills. 



The beds at Guntay dip to the N. E. about 15° to 20°, they are 

 much more uniform in the direction of their dip than on the river 

 bank, where their close proximity to the line of the fault running 



