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5. Nandg'ondi. 
Somewhere 111 the Nundgondi jungles 1 found an outcrop of spessar- 
tite-bearing rock- often quite blackened — occurring as patches and 
streaks in quartz. At its two ends this rock seemed to pass into quartz- 
ite. The strike was west-north -west and the rock on the north side of 
the band was a bronze-cohaired biotite-schist. The .1-inch map of this 
area represents the hills so incorrectly that it is almo.«t impossible to 
correlate the rea! topography with that shewn on the map. As far as 1 
could make out, however, this outcrop was at the foot of the southern 
end of the long S. S. W. running ridge on which the deserted village 
of ' Nandgondee ' is marked on the map. 
6. Sitagondi. 
In the reserved forest, in the valley just to the north of we.stern end 
of the large mass of quartzite hills marked on the i-inch map as the site 
of the village of ' Seethagondee ', there are two obscure occurrences of 
manganiferous rocks to be found only with difficulty, or rather by acci- 
dent, on account of the jungle and long grass. One of these localities is 
about h mile due north of the 'ee' of ' Seethagondee' and here fragments of 
spessartite- bearing rock, probably derived from a neighbouring or under- 
lying baud of similar rock are found scattered on the ground for 100 to 
200 yards along an east to west line. Tlie rock is composed of a friable 
dark-brown to black aggregate in which the garnets average perhaps 
g-^to ^2 iiich in diameter. A little to the north of these fragments there is 
an outcrop, in one place, of biotite-gneiss dipping to S. 20'^ W. at 
30" to 40°, and in another, more to the west, of bronze-coloured mica- 
schist dipping at 45° in the same direction. 
Some 500 to 600 yards west of this spot and apparently on the same 
line of strike there are to be found — associated with very schistose bic- 
tite-gneiss and biotite-felspar-quartz-schists, which dip to S. 20° W. 
at 50° — several blocks of spessartite-bearing rock, consisting largely 
of the yellow fine-grained variety, streaked and patched with black 
due to conversion to manganese-ore ; but partly of the red-bro\m granu- 
lar variety, much blackened. There is also a fair quantity of greenish- 
grey rhodonite associated with a little of the pink variety. 
At neither of the above localities was any merchantable manganese- 
ore seen. 
GROUP lil. 
7. Kandpi, 
8. Mansar. 
9. Mansap Extension. 
10. Parsoda. 
A* uui'Uit. 
