The Antiquities of Orissa v2.c16.s2.140

v2.c16.s2.140

**Dhavalagiri:** The last of the four hills which surround the town of Bhuvaneśvara to the north-west, west and south is called *Dhavalagiri* or the **"White mountain,"** otherwise named *Dhauli*. Unlike the other three it is quite detached, and forms a cluster of its own, including three ranges with several depressions and prominences. It occurs on the south bank of the Dāyah river, close by the village of Dhauli, the origin of whose name will be explained further on. Lieutenant Markham Kittoe, who visited it in 1838, and first brought it to the notice of Europeans, says—That the three hills of which the group consists, "rise abruptly from the plains and occupy a space of about five furlongs by three; they have a singular appearance from their isolated position, no other hills being nearer than eight or ten miles.⁵⁹ They are apparently volcanic, and composed of upheaved breccia with quartzose rock intermixed.