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GENERAL VIEW OF CAVES.—AJUNTA.

MMEDIATELY below the rocks shown on the last photograph, the river makes a sudden bend to the left, on the outer sweep of which the Caves are situated.

This view is interesting as showing the two great platforms of trap-rock of which this country is composed, The upper, perfectly flat, forms the plain of the Deccan. The lower, equally horizontal, is the one in which the caves are situated. The river Tapty flows over a third, which it also cuts through lower down. And above all these three is an upper stratum, but only existing in detached horizontal fragments, which give so peculiar a form to the celebrated hill forts of this part of India. 3