Chap. XXXVI.] 
NAGPDR : GHOGARA. 
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cart-loads of this ore are said to have been removed for sale for chemical 
purposes. It should be noticed that this pyrolusite was found quite 
by accident, the quarry having been started so as to investigate the 
nodule-ore, and it is quite possible that similar pyrolusite might be 
found at other places along this belt of rock if it were carefully pros- 
pected. 
28. Ghogara (Pench River). 
About 2 miles north-east of Pjxrsioni there is a very fine exposure 
of crystalline limestones in the Pench River stretching for some quarter 
of a mile across the strike of the Hmestones, which is at right angles 
to the course of the river. The limestones, except in the rains, afford 
a means of crossing the river, which is forced at one point to flow 
through a narrow gorge. This natural ford is known to the natives as 
Ghogara and with their usual appreciation of the beauties of nature 
they have sanctified certain portions of it. Thus in the rains, only one 
small pinnacle is said to remain uncovered by water. This is known 
as Mdhddeo. In another place the visitor is shown the wheel-marks 
of Mahadeo's gdri, these being the parallel banding in the limestones ; 
while the footprints of the bullocks are represented by nodules of man- 
2anese-ore in the crystalline limestone. 
This must be the exposure referred to by Captain Jenkins under 
the name of Gokula.^ He describes the scene in very picturesque 
language and says : - 
1 ' The limestone .... passes into a quartz rock, coloured by manganese- 
ore ; the dark stripes given by which are very variously contorted.' 
This occurrence was also noticed by H. W. Voysey^ who says : — 
'At Nayakund,Pnruni,a,nd the beJ of the Pesh river, granite and gneiss of 
various kii.ds, also quartz rock and sandstone; and folia-ted black manganese ore is i;i 
great quantity .' 
These crystalline hmestones form a barrier stretching from the west 
bank in anE.5°N. direction, the rocks themselves dipping to theN.15°W. 
at 50°. In the cold season the water, which occupies only a por- 
tion of the bed of the river, reaches this barrier near its western end, 
and then flows eastward along this steep dip-surface of rock until it 
reaches a gap through which it falls in several small waterfalls ; it then 
continues its way southward in a deep narrow channel across the strike 
of the limestones, until it again reaches an entirely alluvial bed with 
some rock exposures in the banks. In this exposure the rocks have been 
most wonderfully carved out by the water into numerous upstanding 
masses separated by narrow channels. All the surfaces have been cut 
into intersecting concave depressions, most perfectly smooth, and where 
1 As. Res., XVIII, p. 210, (1833) ; and Glean. Sci., I, p. 227, (1829). 
2 As. Res., XVIII, p. 127, (1833) ; and Glean. Sci., II, p. 28. (1830). 
