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ADDA KUDDU. 
3 P.M. Ther. 84® Wet bulb Mason’s hygr. 75® 
9 P.M. 81®, 5 „ „ 79® 
1 \th , — We weighed at daylight, and soon arrived off 
the old town of Adda Kuddu, which had been proposed 
as an eligible situation for our settlement. We found 
there many ruins, indicating the site of this once-thriving 
place, and the industry of its late inhabitants, especially 
numerous large dye pits, but so rapidly does luxuriant 
nature in these climes throw a mantle of vegetation 
over the deserted scenes of the labours of man, that it 
was with difficulty we made our way through a place 
where lately nothing but busy feet and merry voices had 
been. 
Captain Trotter and Commander B. Allen went on 
shore, accompanied by the geologists, botanist, and Mr. 
Carr, the superintendent of the Model Farm — Com- 
mander W. Allen being too unwell to join them. On 
examination, we were disappointed at finding that the 
soil was unfavourable for the growth of cotton.* 
The ‘ Soudan’ was detached across the river to 
communicate with a town on the left bank, inhabited by 
the persons who had been driven away from Adda 
* At Adda Kuddu, the granite is mixed up and complicated with 
gneiss, which generally dips at an angle of 60° to the southward. 
The granite forms veins, running into gneiss in all directions, and, in 
some places, the granite contains imbedded masses of gneiss. — 
Dr, Stanyer^s Geol, Report, 
