59, SOIL OF THE NERBUDDAH VALLEY. 
of strata, nor impregnation, in the adjoining soil, and, from 
the rolled and worn surface of the pieces, it was evident 
they had been brought down by the stream from a dis- 
tance. 
The soil of the Nerbuddah Valley, all the way from 
Jubbulpore to Hussingabad, consists of a black coarse 
earth, like that of Bundlecund, having its surface strewed 
over with chalcedony and agates. It is very fertile, and, 
in some places, well cultivated ; but a large portion of the 
country is jungly, and in a state of nature, deep forests 
extending from the bottom of the Gondwana hills to the 
river, which, in its whole tract, skirts along the opposite 
range to Malwa. 
The specimens which I have now the pleasure to send, 
were procured chiefly from the Baitool Valley, in Berar, 
and the hills of the Gondwana range leading to it. 
