GOPINATHPUR (Caves at)

(Gobindpur(Rajnagar) - IN)
22.650000,86.066700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

What appears to be at least two groups (note 1) of extensive rift caves, which were explained with cooling of molten trap rock, play a minor role in the scenery of a hunter's story (note 2) which was narrated to entertain the Victorian readers of BALL (1880 edited 1985: 142-146, 160-161). SITUATION: At a difficult to reconstruct location on the Chhotanagpur (Chota Nagpur) and somewhere in certain hills (no name mentioned) near one Gopinathpur (note 3), which BALL (1880) places at a distance of a day's march (10 to 50 km) from a place called Landu (Lopso?), which is noted for its old copper mines and its extensive pot-stone (steatite) mines. This must have been the Feudatory State Kharsawan (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1880: The extent of the caves rendered it impossible to make any attempt at smoking out the bears with the least prospect of success (BALL 1880 edited 1985: 145). Owing to the number and depth [sic! probably for: length] of the caves, which consist of fissures in the tap, produced by cooling of the molten rock, the chances in favour of a bear's escape, if not killed on the spot, are considerable (BALL 1880 edited 1985: 160).What appears to be at least two groups (note 1) of extensive rift caves, which were explained with cooling of molten trap rock, play a minor role in the scenery of a hunter's story (note 2) which was narrated to entertain the Victorian readers of BALL (1880 edited 1985: 142-146, 160-161). SITUATION: At a difficult to reconstruct location on the Chhotanagpur (Chota Nagpur) and somewhere in certain hills (no name mentioned) near one Gopinathpur (note 3), which BALL (1880) places at a distance of a day's march (10 to 50 km) from a place called Landu (Lopso?), which is noted for its old copper mines and its extensive pot-stone (steatite) mines. This must have been the Feudatory State Kharsawan (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1880: The extent of the caves rendered it impossible to make any attempt at smoking out the bears with the least prospect of success (BALL 1880 edited 1985: 145). Owing to the number and depth [sic! probably for: length] of the caves, which consist of fissures in the tWhat appears to be at least two groups (note 1) of extensive rift caves, which were explained with cooling of molten trap rock, play a minor role in the scenery of a hunter's story (note 2) which was narrated to entertain the Victorian readers of BALL (1880 edited 1985: 142-146, 160-161). SITUATION: At a difficult to reconstruct location on the Chhotanagpur (Chota Nagpur) and somewhere in certain hills (no name mentioned) near one Gopinathpur (note 3), which BALL (1880) places at a distance of a day's march (10 to 50 km) from a place called Landu (Lopso?), which is noted for its old copper mines and its extensive pot-stone (steatite) mines. This must have been the Feudatory State Kharsawan (note 4). CAVE DESCRIPTION 1880: The extent of the caves rendered it impossible to make any attempt at smoking out the bears with the least prospect of success (BALL 1880 edited 1985: 145). Owing to the number and depth [sic! probably for: length] of the caves, which consist of fissures in the tap, produced by cooling of the molten rock, the chances in favour of a bear's escape, if not killed on the spot, are considerable (BALL 1880 edited 1985: 160).

Documents

Bibliography 06/01/2018
  • Ball, Valentine 1880 edited 1980, 1985.

Histoire

EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1869.01.29: Valentine BALL (1880 edited 1985: 142-146) spent a morning and early evening near caves (no names mentioned) in the vicinity of Gopinathpur. Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

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