IN SOUTHERN INDIA. 



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but they were incorporated also in his final Memoir on the 

 Pranhita- Grodavari valley, in connection with which they will 

 be again referred to further on. They are among the most 

 important practical results obtained by the Survey in South 

 India. 



On the completion of the work in the south-western part of 

 the Nizam's territory and the South Mahratta country, Mr. 

 King reverted to his old working ground in the Grodavari 

 valley, and the author was directed to take up the country 

 between the ghats and the sea from Lat. 15° N. up to 

 Masulipatam. Mr. King's work in the Grodavari country 

 occupied him till the end of the field season 1879-80, and 

 resulted in the publication of one Memoir in 1880 on the coastal 

 region of the Grodavari District, and of a second, in 1881, on 

 the geology of the Pranhita- Grodavari valley. 26 Mr. King's 

 Godavari work was interrupted in 1874-75 by a visit to the 

 Wynaad, where he spent several months in examining the 

 auriferous tract in the south-east part of the district. His 

 report on this region was published in May 1875 in the 

 Records of the Greological Survey of India. ?7 



This report though rather put in the background, but from 

 a mining point of view only, by Mr. Brough-Smyth's subse- 

 quent report, contains a capital account of the geology of 

 South-ljast Wynaad and a fair statement of the gold prospects 

 as far as they could then be foreseen. 



Tinte will show which views were best founded — the mo- 

 derate ones or the highly colored ones put forward later on. 

 Several scientific Mining Engineers of high standing 

 expressed in conversation with the author their very favorable 

 opinion of Mr. King's report. 



26 In vols, xvi and xviii of the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of 

 India respectively. 



27 Preliminary Note on the Goldfields of the South-East Wynaad, Mad- 

 ras Presidency, by William King, B.A., Deputy Superintendent, Geological 

 Surrey of India. — Records of the Geological Survey of India, vol. viii, 1S75 



