70 
Miscellaneous Notices. 
[Feb. 
The following were determined trigonometrical]}'. 
Tin gy<?> 918 
Mam alu, 4009 
Mallung, ..*. .*.* 2434 
The following observations were made to determine the elevation of Pandua, 
April 17th, 1827. v 
Hours. 
A. Th. 
j D. Th. 
Barom. 
Remarks. 
7 A. M. 
71 
70 
30,3.94 
Clear sky 
10 A. M. 
85 
86 
30,394 
do. 
1 1 A. ill. 
87 
SH 
30,436 
Fleecy clouds 
12 
89 
92 
30,436 
do. 
1 P. M. 
91 
93 
30,436 
do. 
2 
90 
92i 
30,436 
Wind fresh from South. 
3 
91 
94 
30,374 
4 
92 
94 
30,374 
6 
88 
90 
30,312 
7 
80 | 
80 | 
30,300 
The barometer is of the common Englefield kind, made by Jones : its internal 
diameter between 10 and x - 5 inch, and its results require to be corrected by 4- * 
as a compensation for the want of a guage point. I have no reason to think that 
an} an was included at the time the above observations were made. This correc- 
tion was made in computing the altitudes now given. w c 
. , 5 . — Desiderata in Indian Geology. 
TLe fol owing 1S an extract from a letter addressed by a gentleman at home, of 
high scientific attainments, to a correspondent in this country. 
At the Warapilly Ghaut on the Kistna, on the road from Hydarabad to Nellore 
tne river seems to have forced its present passage out of the bed of a great lake or 
rather perhaps the breach may have taken place at Ibrahim patten, or BmrS 
some miles further down; but at Warapilly the ground on the north .iK u 
river rises abruptly, and on the south side very gradually ; so that according to m 
recollection you have in half a coss, on the oneside, tlfe’ crowing out^edleso^ 
the strata of deposition cut through bv the river wbi L ™ ti,„ .i . j efl " es ot 
many coss before you come to 
fTand T r r - idcs 
be interesting, os their tZZ’, l°T 
pressure they have been subjected to. Some immense loose l, nrK n r to , the 
marble are found lying 0 n the south side. Specimens from the foce ofti'm rft 
Bezwarrah, where it has been cut down bv thl river rnieht also bo « at 
I find among some memoranda the following sketch of a hill r c interestin £\ 
when I had not an opportunity of getting at it tS examine it. p " hap^f anyTf yoS 
correspondents be 
remarkable hill surrohnded^by 8 * Ve y ° U an account of it. “ A 
from Narrainpoor (north side^f the Kistnah) th the 2 coss S. E, 
S., or S. by W. ^tnahj , the hill apparently 3 coss distance 
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