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destitute of verdure, and capped with perpetual 

 snow." 



" Kangra consist of a series of parallel ranges, 

 divided by longitudinal Valleys, 



Parallel Ranges. the general direction of which, 



from North-West to South-East, have determined 

 the shape of the District. These ridges and valleys 

 increase gradually in elevation as they recede from 

 the plains, and approach the snowy barrier which 

 forms the Northern Boundary. The characteristic 

 features of Hill and Valley are best defined where 

 nearest to the plains. Thus, the border chain, 

 which seperates the level tracts of the Doab from 

 the Hills, runs in an uniform course from Hajee- 

 pore on the Beas, to Roopur on the Banks of the 

 Sutlej. The Valley which it incloses, known as 

 the " Juswun Boon," preserves the same regular 

 simplicity, and stretches in one unbroken parallel 

 to the same extremes. But the further we penetrate 

 into the interior of this mountain system, the 

 less these distinctive lineaments are maintained. 

 Hills dissolve into gentle slopes, and platforms of 

 table land and valleys become convulsed and up- 

 heaved, so as no longer to be distinguished, from 

 the ridges which environ them." 



"The colossal range of mountains, which bounds 



Kaugra to the North, deserves more 

 The Chumba or \ x i ^ . 



4 Saowy Range. tnan tllls passing description. Al- 



though the direction of this range 



