GNEISS OF T1IE KUKRI HILLS. 
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The Eastern or Lower Kukri Hills hardly rise above 3000 feet, but maintain 
this height most uniformly over the whole of their length between m and Id, a 
distance of 15 miles. These hills form a narrow promontory about two miles in 
breadth with steep, sometimes almost vertical, sides. They lie six miles or so 
north of the Northern Foothills. 
New Harbour Height (II) (Fig. 13). 
At the extreme eastern foot of the hill H, or New Harbour Height, specimens 
(730, 731) of hornblende-schist and gneiss were obtained. The gneiss belongs to the 
dark variety, the structure-lines dipping at an angle of 30° to the north-east. About 
Cathedral Bocks. B 0 m 
G G 2 E D 4 
Fig. 14 .— Looking dp the Ferrar Glacier, Northern Foothills on the left, Cathedral Rocks near the 
CENTRE, AND THE KUKRI HlLLS ON THE RIGHT. 
a mile west of this point, where a small hanging glacier on the south side of the hill 
occurs, the dip suddenly changes to one of 20° to the west. The dip is emphasised by 
the fact that the snow always lies only in sheltered hollows. The hanging glacier lies 
on what appears to be a fault. 
Below the hill D 4 . 
Below m at the western end of the Lower Kukri Hills a white crystalline limestone 
occurs, and the bedding-planes of this rock dip to the north-east at 70°. The apparent 
thickness is about 1000 feet, and the strike is N.W. — S.F. Between this white 
