i& STRATA OF mON-GLANCJB. 
iStone of Lohargong. When I reached the town of Sehorraf,? 
I found these two rocks, and some others, forming a small 
hill, on which the Fort, or Ghur, is there placed. 1*he 
other rocks are quartz, and a beautiful slaty variety of iron- 
glance, which bears so great a resemblance to primitive 
clay-slate, that we at first confounded it with that rOck. 
They are disposed in thin and nearly vertical strata, and 
alternate and intermix with each other. In some specimens, 
the slate is singularly striped with various coloured mate- 
rials, which appear to differ in their hardness. 
The village of Sehorra, where these rocks are found, is 
prettily situated on two or three small gradually rising 
eminences, having a good deal of open glade, which is 
flanked and terminated by mango-groves, in such a manner 
as to give the whole the air of an English scene. The soil 
of the district around is of the same black colour as that of 
Bundlecund, but is more clayey. It is extremely fertile ; 
and the appearance of the surface, at the time I passed 
here, indicated great care and attention on the part of the 
Ryots. For some distance to the south-west of Sehorra, 
not a spot could be seen which was not cultivated, and laid 
out in square pieces, with an intervening low mud-dike, 
similar to the paddy fields in Bengal. 
A few miles beyond Sehorra, we pass the Ilim, a stream 
of considerable width, which falls into the Nerbuddah, a 
little to the westward. The bank is not rocky, like the Cane 
at Kopah, but formed entirely of sand, without any gravel 
or pebbles. Some large masses of a variety of round granu- 
lar red iron-ore are met with at Gossulpore, a sweet little 
village, which we pass between Sehorra and Punnahghur. 
The soil is formed from the debris of this rock, and is dry 
and fertile. 
In the march from Punnahghur to Jubbulpore, we cross 
the Periot, (or Pracu^ as Aiirowsmith has it laid down in 
