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also. We stopped for lunch
after passing over the range in
a warm marine. The hills
were covered by a scrub oak, o'ders
+ some bushes. From the lunch
place we followed along the
ridge of the same range + then
dropped down to the low valley
where Per-ya is situated.
We reached this village at
5 P.M. & carved in a delapidated
temple. Before reaching the
village we observed that a bad
lands or Garden of the Gods
sort of rocks formation on
the slopes of the valley here
a grayish lava or possibly
limestone formation was well
fractured into columns 15or
20 feet high. Many of them but
some had large heels like
pestles & the rock were
horizontally bedded. Along
one of the creeks we
passed the rock was columnar
bedded like basaltic columns.
The rock which I thought was
limestone maybe a sort of pumaceous