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Asiatick Researches; or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for Enquiring into the History The Antiquities The Arts and Sciences and Literature of Asia

1833

5 from thence extends as the overlying rock with little interruption to the extremity of the peninsula covering the base of the mountains and the whole of the narrow belt of land that separates them from the sea exhibiting a succession of low rounded hills and undulations and repoing on the primitive rocks which occasionally protrude above the surface. [...] The bed of the Caveri or rathef the alltivial deposits in the vicinity of Trichinopoly produce a variety of gems corresponding to those of Ceylon : in general however the surface of the level country as far north as the Pennar river seems to consist of the debris of granitic rocks and plains of marine sand probably left by the retreat of the sea with occasional alluvial deposits and part [...] the Geological fetures of a portion of the provinces of ndelkhan./ and lio:rhelkhand and also of the districts of Xi'ar and Jehi'Ijmr I have great pleasure in suemitting the result of my observations to the Asiatic Society and I beg to offer to their notice the linstom. [...] The great extent of trap rocks being nearly equal to a third of the area of the country and the absence of all regular formations posterior to has if future research should prove it to be the case are undoubtedly remarkable features in the geology of India; and I cannot help thinking that they may hereafter be the means of explaining some of the most important phcenomena in the science provi [...] The junction of the Saner Bearnti and Ala rivers is about 1000 feet ascertained from Tigre and Garreko z the source of the Sonar is 1050 feet and it fall 950 feet in a course of 110miles; the source of the Bearati about 1700 feet ascertained from Sanunpore and its fall to its junction with the Ken '700 feet in 105 miles: the source and fall of the 1.7n river is nearly the same as the Bra

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Pages
279
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120107
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-vi unknown view
General Observations on the Geology of India
1-22 James Calder view
On the Geology of a Portion of Bundelkhand Boghelkhand and the Districts of Sagar and Jebelpur
23-46 James Franklin view
The Trap Formation of the Sagar District
47-81 S. Coulthard view
Remarks on the Geology of the Country
82-99 James Hardie view
On the Diamond Mines of Panna in Bundelkhand
100-122 James Franklin view
On the Geological and Mineralogical Structure
123-127 H. W. Voysey view
Observations
128-162 James Low view
Description of the North West Coal District
163-170 Jones view
Examination and Analysis if Some Specimens of Iron Ore From Burdwan
171-177 H. Piddington view
On a New Species of Buceros
178-ii Hodgson view
On Some Petrified Shells Found in the Gawilgerh Range of Hills in April 1823.
187-194 H. W. Voysey view
An Account of Some Minerals Collected at Nagpur and its Vicinity
195-215 F. Jenkins view
Notice of the Occurrence of Gypsum in the Indo-Gangetic Tract of Mountains
216-223 J. D. Herbert view
On the Fertilising Principle of the Inundations of the Hugli
224-226 H. Piddington view
On the Mineral Productions of that Part of the Himalaya Mountains Lying between the Satlaj and the Kali (Gagra) Rivers
227-258 J. D. Herbert view
Tables Exhibiting a Daily Register of the Tides in the River Hoogly at Calcutta from 1805 to 1828; with Observations on the Results thus Obtained
259-267 James Kyd view

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