Their wooded summits form another <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />table-land equal in height with <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granitic</name> plateau, covered with a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />similar vegetation, but nowhere rising <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />into hills, they are peopled by <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">a</del> very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />scattered tribes of Kols & Bheels who <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />work the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Eisen">Iron</name> found scattered over their <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />summits.<space xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" dim="horizontal" />Though resting on <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein">limestone</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />this <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Sandstein">sandstone</name> is nowhere carboniferous <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& I suspect belongs to a very much earlier <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />period than that of the Indian <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kohle">coal</name>.