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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. ft
occupied. At this village there was a sheep-fold, strongly fortified CHAPTER
by a hedge of dry thorns, and containing four huts, which the iZ^jl,
shepherds usually occupied. These people, alarmed at my appear- August 25.
ance, and suspecting that I came to take away their flocks for the
use of the army, did not approach the village all night- hut pre-
ferred exposing their cattle to the danger of tigers. These beasts
of prey are said to be numerous here, and at night frequently prowl,
under the walls ; we therefore burned fires round the tents, as was.
our usual practice in suspicious places. My motive for stopping at
this poor place was, to examine the quarry from whence the fine
black stone used in Hyder's monument was taken. When I assigned
this reason to the people, it appeared so absurd to them, that their.
fears were greatly increased.
This quarry is situated about half a mile east from the village, Quarry of
and rises in a small ridge about half a mile long, a hundred yards
wide, and from twenty to fifty feet in perpendicular height. This
ridge runs nearly north and south, in the common direction of the
strata of the country, and is surrounded on all sides by the com-
mon gray granite, which, as usual, is penetrated in all directions
by veins of quartz and felspar; but neither of these enter the
quarry.
This stone is called Caricullu, or black-stone, by the natives, who;
give the same appellation to the quartz impregnated with iron, and
to the brown haematites.; and in fact they all run very much into;
one another, and differ chiefly in the various proportions of the same
component parts; but have a certain general similitude easily de-
fined, and are found in similar masses and strata. The black-stone
of this place is an amorphous hornblend, containing minute, but
distinct rhomboidal lamellar concretions of basaltine,. I imagine
that it is the same stone with that which by the antients was called
Basaltes, and which was by them sometimes formed into images, as
it is now by the idolaters of India.
The surface of the ridge is covered with large irregular masses,,
occupied. At this village there was a sheep-fold, strongly fortified CHAPTER
by a hedge of dry thorns, and containing four huts, which the iZ^jl,
shepherds usually occupied. These people, alarmed at my appear- August 25.
ance, and suspecting that I came to take away their flocks for the
use of the army, did not approach the village all night- hut pre-
ferred exposing their cattle to the danger of tigers. These beasts
of prey are said to be numerous here, and at night frequently prowl,
under the walls ; we therefore burned fires round the tents, as was.
our usual practice in suspicious places. My motive for stopping at
this poor place was, to examine the quarry from whence the fine
black stone used in Hyder's monument was taken. When I assigned
this reason to the people, it appeared so absurd to them, that their.
fears were greatly increased.
This quarry is situated about half a mile east from the village, Quarry of
and rises in a small ridge about half a mile long, a hundred yards
wide, and from twenty to fifty feet in perpendicular height. This
ridge runs nearly north and south, in the common direction of the
strata of the country, and is surrounded on all sides by the com-
mon gray granite, which, as usual, is penetrated in all directions
by veins of quartz and felspar; but neither of these enter the
quarry.
This stone is called Caricullu, or black-stone, by the natives, who;
give the same appellation to the quartz impregnated with iron, and
to the brown haematites.; and in fact they all run very much into;
one another, and differ chiefly in the various proportions of the same
component parts; but have a certain general similitude easily de-
fined, and are found in similar masses and strata. The black-stone
of this place is an amorphous hornblend, containing minute, but
distinct rhomboidal lamellar concretions of basaltine,. I imagine
that it is the same stone with that which by the antients was called
Basaltes, and which was by them sometimes formed into images, as
it is now by the idolaters of India.
The surface of the ridge is covered with large irregular masses,,