QUARTZ FORMATION OF BAITOOL. 5S 
APPENDIX. 
Section I. 
Containmg some Account of the Rocks found in tlie Baitool 
Valley^ in Berar, and on the Hills of the GondwanCi 
Range. 
On crossing the Nerbuddah Valley, at Hussingabad,we enter 
on those hills, about 15 miles to the south, near a village 
named Petrora. The intermediate space is partly cultivat- 
ed, and partly in a neglected state, being overrun with a 
tall coarse grass, and having an occasional clump of shrubs 
or low trees. Its aspect is bare, and indicative of a defi- 
cient population, which indeed may be said to characterize 
the whole of the district. The hills are considerably lower 
here than to the eastward, being in general of a conical or 
dome-like figure, and covered to the summits with trees of 
the same low description as those of the Bundlecund range. 
They are composed partly of trap-boulders, especially the 
first met with ; but the principal rock, all the way to Bai- 
tool, is harder and more compact than sandstone, but less 
so than perfect quartz. Its position is quite vertical ; and 
this stratification is best seen in some ridi^es situate near 
the viUage of Teckaree, immediately after descending the 
Ghaut, which leads to the valley. At Shawpore, I found 
a very e^itensive formation of secondary limestone. There 
