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the peculiarity which I before remarked, respecting the 
want of general elevation in the whole of this mountainous 
tract. Hills are seen in every direction covered with jungle, 
rising abruptly out of an intervening flat country, the dull 
and cheerless aspect of which carries to the mind the idea 
of an uninhabited waste, or the haunt of savage beasts only. 
It is precisely the expression which Daniel has given in 
the delineation of a fort in the Mysore, where a sort of 
sombre stillness (if I may be allowed so to term it) reigns, 
that no language can pourtray. 
Adjyghur and Callinger are not less interesting to the 
antiquary, or mythological inquirer, than to the geologist ; 
and the lover of art will find abundant subject of admira- 
tion in the beautiful remains of ancient Hindu architecture, 
which still exist within the walls of both these forts. 
The country, for a short distance beyond Adjyghur, is 
open, and the soil again resembles that of the districts on 
the other side of Banda. A few miles farther on, we come 
to the village or hamlet of Besseramgunge, at the bottom 
of the Ghaut of that name. This Ghaut, or pass, leads 
from the low country of Bundlecund to the elevated table- 
land, on a level with the hills last mentioned. The path is 
cut through, or carried over granite, trap, and sandstone. 
At first, the ascent, though pretty steep, is not difficult, as 
there are few large stones, and no rock rising from the 
surface. Soon, however, it becomes steeper, and more ob- 
structed, granite, trap, and sandstone masses presenting 
themselves in succession; and in many of the last may be 
perceived quartz-nodules included, like those found in the 
sandstone of the Table-Mountain at the Cape. The ar- 
rangement of the sandstone is in general horizontal, but at 
some points it appears to rise from the surface in the form 
of ridges almost vertical. The trap-rock exhibits no 
