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of the quartzite ridge north-west of the village, and then 
Kamtliis again. 
To Arlapully. 
have anything to do with this lamination which appears to be as distinctly sedimentary 
as the lamination in any ordinary aqueous rock. 
This existence or not of Eozoonal structure must now rest on that closer examination 
of the rock specimens which could not bo made in the field. 
Prom Ye.llambile the path runs north-west to Bungarchilka. Thence, after going 
Continuation of route past Bun- nort t for a or so, it passes round the northern end 
garchilka. 
enters on Kamthi sandstones. 
These are lying in easy undulations, or nearly flat, possibly with a general dip of 
from 5°—10° north, or north-eastward. They cannot be of 
much thickness between their eastern edge near Bungar¬ 
chilka and the village of Arlapully, the next place of any size on the road; but they attain 
a much greater thickness in some ridges and high hills to 
the north, on whose steeper slopes the linos of out-crop 
of the beds are very well displayed. 
Arlapully is noticed* by Mr. Blanford as a place where some fragments of coal had 
been found. I did not know this until some time after having left the village, or a closer 
Change in sandstones beyond Aria- examination might have made. However, in the next 
llul h- march, viz., from Arlapully to Goondal or Goondala (some 
10 or 12 miles west north-west), there is a gradual change in the appearance and character 
of the sandstones, even in the rare cases in which they are exposed to view. 
These become rather paler-colored, less coarse and tufaceous in their texture and full 
of iron concretions, when they are indeed very like the 
Barakar sandstones of Lingala and Madaveram on the 
Godavery. 
The path from Arlapully crosses the Kinnersammi Yagu at the confluence of the 
Jaleru (from the north), and then it keeps pretty close alongside the right bank of the 
main stream until it again crosses the river just before passing through the village of 
Mootapooram. 
At this crossing there is a good display of thick-bedded grey and yellow sandstones, 
some of them rather fine-grained and not unlike Barakars ; 
indeed, from the fact of the beds undulating so easily and 
there being an evident general dip of low degree to the cast and north, throughout the 
Kamtliis up to this, it is highly probable that these pale beds arc really of the lower series. 
The above is what I noted at the time of passing the place. Since then I have seen 
the coal area north of Kamarum, to be described further on, 
Possibly Co.il rocks. and I am still of opinion that at Mootapooram or close by, 
we have true Barakars, and it is at this village until the bed of the Kinnersammi V;igu 
has been examined more closely that trial borings might be put down with advantage, if it 
ever become necessary to search for coal in this wild region. 
The beds are rolling about easily with a dip of 5° or 6°, about north-west, 
though it is difficult to say what is the true direction of 
the dip in such irregular beds as these are. 
Barakars. 
At Mootapooram. 
Easy lie. 
* Records, Geological Survey of India, Vol. IV, Part 3, p. 82. 
