VII.—On a portion of Dukhun, East Indies.

Abstract

My personal observation of Dukhun (Deccan) and Konkun (Concan)* is not confined to the boundaries laid down in the following geological memoir; but as the rock and mineral specimens remaining at present in my possession are from Dukhun only, I have not thought it proper to extend my details beyond the limits I here prescribe to myself, although I might venture to do so from notes taken at different periods, without exposing my accuracy to question. I will, however, in closing this paper, offer a few observations on the trap and other formations of India; the amazing extent of the former not appearing to have been appreciated hitherto in European geological works. Boundaries. My tract † is bounded on the west by the range of mountains usually denominated by Europeans the “Ghàts”, from a misinterpretation of the term ghàt , which simply means a pass, the proper name of this range being the “Syhadree”; on the north by the Mool river, as far as Rahooreh; on the east by a direct line from Rahooreh to the city of Ahmednuggur, and subsequently on the north-east by the Seena river until its junction with the Beema river below Mundroop; on the south-east by a line from Mundroop to the celebrated city of Beejapoor; on the south by a line from Beejapoor to the town of Meeruj; and from this place the boundary in the south-west is the Kristna and Quina rivers, to the hill fort of Wassota, situated in the Ghàts. The western