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Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

CHAPTER 14
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The commissariat officer had cut a road through this grove, and all the European officers of a large military station had been every day riding through it without observing the geological treasure; and it was some time before I could convince them that the stones which they had every day seen were really petrified palm- trees.

The roots and trunks were beautifully perfect.[l6] Notes: 1.

November, 1835.
2.

In the Damoh District, twenty-four miles west of Damoh.

The name appears to be derived from the 'great quantity of hewn stone (Hind.
_patthar_ or _pathar_) lying about in all directions'.


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