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at this place, and made a short excursion 
into the village and its neighbourhood. The 
banks here are high, and the place lies north 
of a hill about three hundred feet high. The 
land surrounding the village is elevated and 
undulating. On the river-side the rock was 
exposed, and consisted of the same calcareous 
sandstone and coarse breccia, which we had 
observed at Prome. This was also the case 
at the promontory of Napadi, and in an inter¬ 
mediate situation, which we examined early 
this morning, but the name of which I did 
not ascertain. The high hill, however, ap¬ 
pears to consist of primitive limestone, and 
gives name to the place. Heaps of this ma¬ 
terial were found near the villages, close to the 
kilns, where it was to be burnt. The soil of 
the undulating ground appeared sandy, with 
here and there an intermixture of gravel, and 
having but a very thin covering of vegetable 
mould. I should not have thought it fertile; 
but, in this matter, practice is our only guide. 
We found indigo, sesamum, and crotollaria 
juncea , or Indian hemp, growing in these si¬ 
tuations vigorously, although much neglected. 
The indigo was four feet high, and the sesa¬ 
mum at least six. In one valley, nearly level 
with the river, we observed a Tank, or rather 
