From the East extreme of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">Vindhya</placeName> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I turned up the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> valley for <measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="100" unit="mile">one</measure> or <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><measure xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" quantity="200" unit="mile">two hundred miles</measure>, our march was <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />very fatiguing owing to the absence <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of roads & roughness of the country. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />We passed the noble hill forts of <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/H0020661 https://www.geonames.org/1258074">Rhotas</placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020902">Bidjegur</placeName>, which occupy <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />prominent spurs of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020870 https://www.geonames.org/1253158">range</placeName>; the <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Sandstein">sandstone</name> on one side of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">river</placeName> & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />low hills of <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Hornstein">Hornstone</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="Jaspis">jasper</name>, <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Quarz">quartz</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Porphyr">Porphyry</name>, highly inclined & contorted <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />on the opposite or Southern bank. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />These are beneath the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Kalkstein">Limestone</name> of <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> & I believe rest on 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">granite</name>: they are much altered by <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />heat & yield the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Jaspis">Jaspers</name> & <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Achat">agates</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />known as <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> Pebbles. Their general <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />appearance is that of dry naked isolated <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />hills skirting the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granite</name> formation <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from the upper part of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName> valley, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />running <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N. E.</abbr> <expan>North East</expan> </choice> to <ref xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="a4f3a0c8-0d51-4eba-b3a0-c80d513eba19" corresp="#f27e9fee-f404-4847-be9f-eef4040847e3" type="editorialNote">Gya</ref><note xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="f27e9fee-f404-4847-be9f-eef4040847e3" corresp="#a4f3a0c8-0d51-4eba-b3a0-c80d513eba19" type="editorial">Vermutlich ist <placeName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020496 https://www.geonames.org/1271440">Gaya</placeName> gemeint.</note><supplied xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" cert="high">.</supplied> – On my passage <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />down the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">Ganges</placeName> I believe I recognize <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the same in the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0019947 http://www.geonames.org/1262482">Monghyr</placeName> & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020693 https://www.geonames.org/8439888">Sultanganje</placeName> <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/H0020533 https://www.geonames.org/1273856">Colgong</placeName>-rocks, thus here skirting <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <abbr>N</abbr> <expan>North</expan> </choice> flanks of the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Granit">Granite</name> range & <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />causing the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010808 https://www.geonames.org/1202950">Ganges</placeName> to take a long sweep<pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="5v" /><gap xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" unit="pages" quantity="1" reason="empty" /><pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="6r" /><fw xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="folNum">6.</fw>to the East. Near <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">Bhangulpore</placeName> I <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />procured <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="mineral" key="Achat">agates</name> precisely similar to <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />those of the <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0018784 https://www.geonames.org/1255729">Soane</placeName>, which had been <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />employed in the decoration of some <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />ruined Jain temples &c near that <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/H0020906 https://www.geonames.org/1276300">Town</placeName>. –