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whole Valley. Every house is encircled by a hedge 

 of bamboos, fruit trees, and other timber useful for 

 domestic wants. Sometimes a cluster of five or six 

 houses occurs, and here a grain-dealer's shop and 

 extensive groves denote the head-quarters of the 

 town-ship. These scattered homesteads, the pictures 

 of sylvan elegance and comfort, relieve the mono- 

 tonous expanse of cultivation, and lend an additional 

 charm to the landscape." 



CONCLUDING DESCRIPTION. 



" There are mountainous masses still undescribed, 

 which it is difficult to bring- under either of the 

 broad distinctions of ridge or Valley. If they fall 

 under either definition they should properly be 

 classed as valleys, although in shape and aspect 

 they more resemble hills. Besides being- contained 

 within the parallel chains, and on the area that 

 would be occupied by the valley, they belong 1 to a 

 later formation. Instead of the secondary sand- 

 stone we have a clay soil, and rounded pebbles mixed 

 with conglomerate rocks. Such for instance are 

 the low alluvial eminences which "constitute the 

 Talooquas of Burgiraon, Teera, Muhul Loree, and 

 that portion of Bajgeeree south of the river Beas. 

 An English traveller, Mr. Vigne, passing* through 

 the hills of Muhul Moree, compared them, not 

 inaptly, to an agitated Sea suddenly arrested and 

 fixed into stone. The crests are like angry waves 

 succeeding one another in tumultuous array, and 

 assuming* the most fantastic forms. Viewed from a 



