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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 43
19th August.—In the morning I went two cosses to a village CHAPTER.
VII
named Madana Mada, having been detained on the way by exa- k^^^j
mining the minerals of a hill, which, from a temple situated near August 19,
m _ * Malaiswara
it, and dedicated to Siva, is named Malaiswara Betta. Owing to Betta.
the vicinity of this temple, a white Lithomarga that is found on the ineras«
hill is considered as holy, and is used in place of the consecrated
ashes which the followers of Siva employ to make the marks of their
religion. The strata are nearly the same as near Doray Guda, and
consist of a schistose decaying rock disposed vertically. Parallel
to this I observed strata of white fat quartz, from one inch to
twenty feet in thickness. Near the temple I found the veins or
strata of quartz running parallel to each other, and from six to
twelve inches distant, and at similar distances sending off transverse
bands which united the strata. The interstices of this kind of net-
work were filled up with the common stone of the country, not
much decayed. It seems to be a hornstone, containing a good deal
of iron, and some mica. The surface of this rock had a curious ap-
pearance. The ferrugineous brown of the hornstone being chec-
quered with the gray quartz ; while this, resisting the weather best,
stood up considerably above the surface, and represented in minia-
ture the whin-dvkes of the island of Mull, as described in the Phi-
losophical Transactions. In some places I saw the white quartz
decaying into sand, and forming masses that on the slightest touch
crumbled between the fingers. As I ascended the hill, I met with
a curious concretion of brown calcareous tufa. It resembled very
exactly a decayed white-ant's (termes) nest changed into lime; and
amongst its branches were impacted some pieces of decayed horn-
stone, round which it had evidently been formed. In these hills
such concretions, I was afterwards informed, are very common ;
and some of them are of a pure white, in which case they are
burned into lime. But this information I did not receive in time
to ascertain the fact. I saw also several detached lumps of brown
haematites; but on the hill there is no ore of iron, that is by the
natives considered as workable.
19th August.—In the morning I went two cosses to a village CHAPTER.
VII
named Madana Mada, having been detained on the way by exa- k^^^j
mining the minerals of a hill, which, from a temple situated near August 19,
m _ * Malaiswara
it, and dedicated to Siva, is named Malaiswara Betta. Owing to Betta.
the vicinity of this temple, a white Lithomarga that is found on the ineras«
hill is considered as holy, and is used in place of the consecrated
ashes which the followers of Siva employ to make the marks of their
religion. The strata are nearly the same as near Doray Guda, and
consist of a schistose decaying rock disposed vertically. Parallel
to this I observed strata of white fat quartz, from one inch to
twenty feet in thickness. Near the temple I found the veins or
strata of quartz running parallel to each other, and from six to
twelve inches distant, and at similar distances sending off transverse
bands which united the strata. The interstices of this kind of net-
work were filled up with the common stone of the country, not
much decayed. It seems to be a hornstone, containing a good deal
of iron, and some mica. The surface of this rock had a curious ap-
pearance. The ferrugineous brown of the hornstone being chec-
quered with the gray quartz ; while this, resisting the weather best,
stood up considerably above the surface, and represented in minia-
ture the whin-dvkes of the island of Mull, as described in the Phi-
losophical Transactions. In some places I saw the white quartz
decaying into sand, and forming masses that on the slightest touch
crumbled between the fingers. As I ascended the hill, I met with
a curious concretion of brown calcareous tufa. It resembled very
exactly a decayed white-ant's (termes) nest changed into lime; and
amongst its branches were impacted some pieces of decayed horn-
stone, round which it had evidently been formed. In these hills
such concretions, I was afterwards informed, are very common ;
and some of them are of a pure white, in which case they are
burned into lime. But this information I did not receive in time
to ascertain the fact. I saw also several detached lumps of brown
haematites; but on the hill there is no ore of iron, that is by the
natives considered as workable.