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A few notes on Antiquities near Jubbulpoor. — By Lieut. -Colonel 
H. Yule. (Bengal Engineers.) 
These notes have little substance, but notes of this kind often 
chance to supply a missing link in researches, and therefore they 
may be worth recording. When about to travel to Jubbulpoor with 
the Governor-General’s Camp in December 1860, 1 asked Col. Cunning- 
ham if he could tell me of any antiquities on our line of march. He 
mentioned that there was a temple at Teoree on the Nursingpoor 
road and desired me to obtain certain particulars about it. 
At Jubbulpoor I could not learn anything distinct about the 
remains indicated by Col. Cunningham, but on my return from a 
visit to the gorge of the Nerbudda above Bhcraghat called “ the 
Marble Rocks,” I went in search of them, accompanied by my friend 
Mr. A. B. Sampson. The village is called in the Revenue Survey 
maps Tewar — by the people Teor. # In looking for ruins our atten- 
tion was drawn to a stony eminence, about half a mile west of the 
village, to which we at once made our way. 
It was swarming with labourers engaged in excavating and cutting 
stone for the Nurbudda bridge of the G. I. P. Railway, and the first 
impression was that it was a natural quarry. This impression was 
dispelled as soon as we mounted from the foot of the knoll and en- 
tered the excavations. The stones were being taken from a site in 
which they had been built together, but for what purpose it was im- 
possible to say. On the side of the excavation fifteen to eighteen 
courses were visible of large blocks of roughly squared sandstone, from 
10 inches to 18 inches and even 2 feet in thickness, and many of them 
exceeding 3 and even 4 feet in length. The bottom of the excavation 
also remained paved with such blocks, all as closely set as the material 
allowed, but without mortar. 
Further inspection showed amid the masonry a number of stones 
with architectural sculpture on them which must have belonged to 
some previous building. Some of the stones also had marks of hav- 
ing been cramped with iron. In some places between two courses of 
sandstone blocks was interposed a course of large slabs of micaceous 
shale, as if to improve the bond. 
* It is between the 6th and 7tli milestones from Jubbulpoor. 
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