The Journal [Afterw.] the Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Ed. by J.C. Morris (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...of which a calcareous conglomerate, in horizontal strata, two or three feet thick, has been formed. At Waronah, white sandstone and a yellow slate, apparently belonging to the clay slate formation to which Voysey refers the blue limestone, is used in building; and one obtained from a hill five miles distant, which I had not time to visit. Most of the pagodas between Hingan ghat and Chanda are built of the same materials. Between Waronah and Chiknee the country is level, well cultivated, and the water within a few feet of the surface; much fever prevails after the rains, although there is no wood or marsh. Basalt protrudes from the level soil, and near it, the bed of a small mil hi displays strangely altered strata of the red slate clay, seen at Lingtee, which is broken up, and intermixed with crystalline nodules and layers of calcareous spar, having a red clay in the interstices. At Dyegham, two miles farther north, and about the same distance south from Chiknee, it is seen dipping to the west of south at a considerable angle, is much fissured, and is reticulated with beautiful veins of calcareous spar, filling up the vertical interstices, which vary from a line to half an inch in breadth; they intersect each other in all directions without disturbance, and were evidently formed at one time. To the east of this, and of the village of Chiknee, there is a very gentle rise of the country, and concentric basalt and great round trap boulders are seen wherever the soil has been removed. On this are found numerous great blocks of indurated clay, of remarkable hardness, and exhibiting all the varieties of that mineral, of flinty slate, of compact schist, and of semi-opal. Many of these masses are also found imbedded in the basalt; and on a very careful...