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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 67
black crust, and is totally free from veins of quartz, or of felspar. CHAPTER
In many places large masses of the granite immersed in the Laterite K^^/lm^f
are in a state of decay; the black mica has entirely disappeared, Feb. 1.
and the white felspar has crumbled into powder, leaving the quartz
in angular masses. These sometimes form so large a share of the
whole rock, that, after the decay of the other component parts of
the granite, they firmly adhere.
On arriving in the Cavila district, the granite shows itself more
abundantly; and among that which, as usual, has no strata, I ob-
served some disposed in strata running east and west, and which
were truncated at the end, like much of that which is found above
the Ghats. Even this was free from veins of quartz.
2d February.—I went three Sultany cosses to Bellata Angady, or Feb. 2.
the white market; a place very improperly named, as it contains APPearanc^
only one shop, and in that nothing but Betel is sold. The country try.
is not so steep as that through which I came yesterday ; but it con-
tains much less rice-land, which is the only part of this country
that is considered as of any value. I am persuaded, however, that
for cotton or dry crops much of it might be cultivated by the
plough; but the population at present is too small to admit of all
the rice-land being cultivated ; and, while that continues to be the
case, it would be madness to attempt any other. On the hills many
trees have now grown up ; but it would appear, that formerly they
had been all cleared ; and to keep the bushes down, and to destroy
vermin, the grass is still annually burned. To-day many buffaloes
and sheep have passed, coming for sale from the dominions of My-
sore; and many oxen have passed from the same quarter, laden Math
iron, cloth, and grain.
At no great distance from the shop near which I encamped, is a Bungar
Matam belonging to the S'wabhaktar; and from thence a town aJ 5'
formerly extended, almost two miles west, to a temple of the Jain.
Midway is a ruinous fort, formerly the residence of the Bungar
Ilajas, to whom much of the neighbouring country belonged. The
black crust, and is totally free from veins of quartz, or of felspar. CHAPTER
In many places large masses of the granite immersed in the Laterite K^^/lm^f
are in a state of decay; the black mica has entirely disappeared, Feb. 1.
and the white felspar has crumbled into powder, leaving the quartz
in angular masses. These sometimes form so large a share of the
whole rock, that, after the decay of the other component parts of
the granite, they firmly adhere.
On arriving in the Cavila district, the granite shows itself more
abundantly; and among that which, as usual, has no strata, I ob-
served some disposed in strata running east and west, and which
were truncated at the end, like much of that which is found above
the Ghats. Even this was free from veins of quartz.
2d February.—I went three Sultany cosses to Bellata Angady, or Feb. 2.
the white market; a place very improperly named, as it contains APPearanc^
only one shop, and in that nothing but Betel is sold. The country try.
is not so steep as that through which I came yesterday ; but it con-
tains much less rice-land, which is the only part of this country
that is considered as of any value. I am persuaded, however, that
for cotton or dry crops much of it might be cultivated by the
plough; but the population at present is too small to admit of all
the rice-land being cultivated ; and, while that continues to be the
case, it would be madness to attempt any other. On the hills many
trees have now grown up ; but it would appear, that formerly they
had been all cleared ; and to keep the bushes down, and to destroy
vermin, the grass is still annually burned. To-day many buffaloes
and sheep have passed, coming for sale from the dominions of My-
sore; and many oxen have passed from the same quarter, laden Math
iron, cloth, and grain.
At no great distance from the shop near which I encamped, is a Bungar
Matam belonging to the S'wabhaktar; and from thence a town aJ 5'
formerly extended, almost two miles west, to a temple of the Jain.
Midway is a ruinous fort, formerly the residence of the Bungar
Ilajas, to whom much of the neighbouring country belonged. The