'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎170] (303/458)

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GEOLOGT OP BOMBAY.
BASALT FROM MALABAR POINT TO MAHALUXIMEE, ANB
SO BY BANDORA TO BASSEIN.
7. —From Malabar Point* to Mahaluximee is a fine bold ridge of
black basalt nearly three miles in length* and about half a mile across*
called Malabar hill maintaining for some distance an elevation of close
on 200 feet above the sea. The ridge terminates in a precipice,|
near the extremity of which stands one of tne lesidences ot the (jq«
vernor, and it continues precipitous for a couple of miles on the
Eastern, or Back Bay side : just under the highest part of the
ridge the rock is tumbled about in huge masses* great irregular pillars
partly buttressing the cliff, partly lying in gigantic ruins at its base,
Along the Back Bay shore a considerable bed of stratified rock makes
its appearance;—on the seaward side the hill slopes down somewhat
gradually—from opposite the Back Bay beach and Love-Grove there
are two independent ridges* near the Parsee “ Towers of Silence” of
unequal elevation, the lower being that by the north western shore,
They are divided from each other by a deep dell of some half mile in
length, and 3 or 400 feet across.
8. —The Malabar hill ridge is partly broken across near Tankerville,
by the deep hollow through which the public road passes, but there seems
no change in the character of the Bock on to Mahaluximee, where the
basalt becomes tabular and looks from a distance like stratified rock,
it here sinks under the level of the sea, and seems intersected for a few
yards by a mass of strata set nearly on edge, stretching into the Bay
opposite the residence of Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy. From this for about
half a mile the rock is concealed by the velard—by the silt of the
flats on the one side, and the gravel of the sea on the other, but appears
to be the same as before. It re—appears in the beautiful little eminences
of Bam Hill, Love-Grove, and the adjoining high grounds, and is once
more partially interrupted by stratified rock, abounding in organic re
mains at the sluices, and again reappears just beyond, forming thewooded
ridge of W orlee Hill. At Worlee village it disappears under the sand
and alluvium, but there is no evidence of its being interrupted—it ri seS
suddenly across the creek at the Portuguese promontory of Senora de
* See Section I., at the end.
t Mr. Clarke estimates (Geol. Trans. Jan. 1S47) the thickness, of the stratum of basalt
the trap at about 70 feet; so far as Malabar and Tardeo Hills are concerned it seems
th» mark—it is nearly correct at the Love Grovo section, to which he more particularly reie
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