Proceeding West: the descent from the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granitic</name> (<name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Gneis">Gneiss</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Hornblende">Hornblende</name><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Schiefer">Schist</name> &c) plateau <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to the plains through which the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />flows is sudden, from <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1300" unit="foot">1300</measure> to <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="600" unit="foot">600 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />This plain<supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">,</supplied> <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="80" unit="mile">80</measure> or <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="mile">100 miles</measure> broad & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />level with the bed of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">Ganges</placeName>, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />isolates the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Sandstein">Sandstone</name> range of the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya</placeName> from that of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020630 https://www.geonames.org/1260367">Paras-Nath</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(the culminant peak on the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granitic</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />plateau). Crossing the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> <note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="inline" hand="#unknown"><placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Erannoboas</placeName></note> (<placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Hieiramo<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />boas</placeName>) about <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="50" unit="mile">50 miles</measure> above its mouth <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />(the undoubted site of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0017613 https://www.geonames.org/1260086">Palibothra</placeName>), the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya range</placeName> rise abruptly (called <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />here the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020534 https://www.geonames.org/1268614">Kymaor</placeName>) & present an abrupt <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />escarpment <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="1200" unit="foot">1200 <choice> <abbr>ft</abbr> <expan>feet</expan> </choice></measure> above the plain of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />horizontal <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Sandstein">sandstones</name> overlying a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />thick bed of <add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear"><metamark />non-</add>fossiliferous <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein">limestone</name>.