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Gneiss, micaceous schist, and quartz rock are also found, and cancar in large 
blocks below the limestone. 
Proceeding from Ramtek to the west a low range of broken hills occurs, a con- 
fused mass apparently of quartz boulders ; further on a granite country is entered 
apparently of a crumbly nature or decomposing. Below the village of Nayakund, 
a dike of gneiss perfectly vertical crosses the Pfeli river. As it interrupted the 
navigation, Captain J. was employed to cut a channel through it, so that the whole 
of its interior was laid open. The rock varied in its character from granite to mi- 
caceous schist, the former being apparently included masses. Round these, as round 
similar masses of quartz, the grain was found to he disturbed and bent from its 
otherwise straight direction. Tlie adjacent rock was a grey granite, occasionally 
traversed by veins of a different granite producing disturbance. 
Gokula is three or four miles up the Pfsh from Nayakund ; the river is here again 
dammed up by a very extensive dyke of crystallized limestone. The left bank of 
the river is of gneiss, the right of clay with a conglomerate of pebbles ; the lime- 
stone being confined to the bed of the river, and apparently unconnected with either 
side. As at Kumiiri, it passes into quartz rock coloured by manganese. Towards 
the left bank granite and gneiss were found passing into, and intermixed with, the 
limestone. 
Tumuli occur in this neighbourhood marked by rings of stone, which were in 
some instances ns much as 50 or 60 paces in diameter. Though examined in differ- 
ent places nothing was found. 
From the specimens collected between Nayakund and Gokula it is inferred, that 
the Pesh crosses a trap country in some part of its course, or at least meets with 
beds or veins of those rocks . In going to Sindwara it was observed that the ascents 
and tops of the passes were of trap. Galena was found in small quantity in quartz 
rock at Parsfiui. 
Returning to Nagpfir by a route intermediate to the granite at Waragaon and 
the range of hills on the north, quartz rock arranged in vertical strata was found 
near Bishwamber. On the KanlnSn at Matni Muhoda, a similar dike of contorted 
gneiss to that at Nayakund occurs. It is accompanied by cellular iron clay. The 
gneiss proceeds beyond Bandera, and is probably part of a great granitic formation 
meeting by the way of the Sanji hills and Retenpfir at Ramgerh ; the great granitic 
range, which sweeps ronnd by Balishwur and Cattak to the Coromandil coast. Red 
ochre of good quality is found near Komta under the Sfinji mountains, and gold 
dust was procured from one of the nullahs, that fall in that direction into the Wyne- 
Ganga. At Leoni occurs basalt apparently connected with that at Chapara ; and 
bordering on it at Cliaori is iron clay l'C sling on gneiss, but of limited extent. Gra- 
nite then succeeds, which continues to Nagpur. A few miles from Leoni, there is 
limestone. 
At Sindwara about 60 or 70 miles from Nagpfir is found granite. 
The gneiss of the valley of Nagpfir extends by Kelode to Lokedera, overlayed in 
many parts by extensive but shallow masses of pnddingstone similar to that at Pu- 
tansinhi and Samir. “After ascending the last ghat, which was covered with trap, the 
rock met with is granite ; and this 1 traced nearly to Baitfil ; the ascending ghat to 
the valley of Baitfil, and last few miles only being trap. The top of the valley of Bai- 
tfil is granite; and this formation extends north nearly toHasanabad, wiflisome small 
interruptions of sandstones and trap, the bottom "of the valley is trippean ; part 
of the great trap of the west, with which it is connected by the valley of the Tapti 
and the Gawilgerh and Assirgerh ranges of mountains, and it is united by Multai and 
Pandurna with the hills of trap, whose extreme promontory in this direction east is 
the hill of Sitabaldi.” 
XII- Notice of the Occtirrence of Gypsum in the Iwto-Gangetic tract of Mountains, 
by Captain J. D. Herbert., Sup. Min* Sur. pp. 216 to 223. 
This paper records the localities of small masses of this mineral found in the 
mountains which bound the Delira D fin to the north. These arc I. The bed of a 
stream which leaves the hills immediately below the village of Mgal, and in the bed 
of which is situated the rock called Sansar Dhara, “ a perpendicular bank 0 f fifty 
feet in height, which for a breadth of sixty or seventy feet is faced with pendent sta- 
lactites from which descends a continual shower of drops." The gypsum occurs 
about two miles beyond this spot, at the confluence of another stream which comes 
from the left. 2. In the bed of the stream which joins the Sansar Dhlira Nailah, 
just opposite that rock a small deposite was found. 3. On the ascent from the vil- 
lage of Rajpfir to the hamlet of Jari Pani in veins in a blue limestone : and 4. On 
the northern face of the same range, a little above the hamlet of Rfinon. 
