Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s4.2

c23.s4.2

Commencing from the Ken river and proceeding westward, the first mine is in the Pandua hill (No.23) but as it is nearly exhausted, I pass on to those of Amrownia, Majgaon, and Motehi; the ore of the first and second of these places (No.24) resembles that of *Deora* to be described hereafter, and that of the third (No.25) is in the form of water worn pebbles of various sizes, which are embedded in ferruginous sandy clay; the mines are situated near the foot of the Bindachel hills which are here composed of *sandstone conglomerate*, and capped with the newer horizontal *sandstone*, which everywhere is uppermost in this range; the iron stone pebbles are about fifteen feet below the surface, and are intermixed with blocks, and fragments of *sandstone*, the whole bearing evident marks of attrition; the metal made from them is not esteemed.