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MANGANESE DEPOSITS OF INDIA : DESCRIPTIVE. [PaRT IV 
The deposit designated here as mine 1 was originally visible only 
as a small outcrop 3 or 4 feet across, projecting from 
""^ ■ the alluvial soil of a field ; but on opening up the 
deposit it was found to widen out rapidly in all directions, as if this 
outcrop were the peak of a hill that had been covered up by alluvium. 
The plan (fig. id) shows the shape of the excavation at the time of my visit 
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Fig. 4!). — Sketch-plan of Kodegaon mine 1. 
In November 190.3, and X shows the position of the original outcrop, which 
had been left standing. It is also visible in Plate 23. The quarry 
was then 141 feet long by 90 feet broad with a greatest depth of 19 
feet. A.S seen round the sides of the quarry the ore was covered by 2 
or 3 feet of brownish clay under which there was often, immediately 
above the ore in situ, 2 or 3 feet of a rubble of fragments of the same. 
As then exposed the whole deposit consisted of a practically solid mass 
of most beautiful looking ore with very little foreign matter. The ore 
