38 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OE THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



region; except that the northern sides of its plateaux are commanded by 

 a minor escarpment facing to the south. At each end of this upland 

 country the features change considerably ; in the east one or two con- 

 spicuous hills rise above neighbouring portions of the range, while to the 

 west the ridges enclosing a flat depression, called the Son, converge, 

 and unite with the superior mass of the peak Sakesar. 



Eastward of Jalalpur the extension of the principal ridge becomes dis- 



From Jalalpur to east- ^o^^ed, and sinuous, and is cut through by the chan- 



ward. nels of two considerable rivers, the Bunhar and the 



Kahan ; Mount Tilla, one of the most lofty eastern elevations, occurring 



at the part interposed between these streams. This Mount Tilla ridge is 



generally between 3 and 4 miles broad, it averages 



nearly 2,000 feet in height, and culminates at Jogi 



ka-Tilla in an elevation of 3,342 feet. Just to the westward of this, where 



the mountain is highest, its width is barely above a mile. The Chambal 



portion of the Tilla chain, nearest to Jalalpur, rises to 2,290 feet, has a 



north and south direction, bending towards the west, where separated 



from Mount Tilla by the Bunhar gorge, and, declining by successive 



ridges eastward, dies out in the alluvial flat of the Jhelum near the Grand 



Trunk Road eastward of Rotas. 



From the northern side of the range at a point N. 10° E from Pind- 



Dadan-Khan, an important spur, separated by a 

 Bakrala ridge. , 



deep gap from the mam mass, leaves the latter and 



stretches for more than 30 miles in a north-easterly direction. Close to 



the range, where it forms the Diljaba mountain, this spur has a height of 



3,052 feet, but further on it declines to heights averaging 2,336 feet, and 



it has been called the Bakrala Ridge from the Pass of that name on the 



Trunk Road. Its highest point in this neighbourhood is Nili Hill near 



Domeli, and the ridge having a general width of 2 or 3 miles may be 



said to end in the broken hilly ground extending for some distance from 



the right bank of the Jhelum in the vicinity of Lehri. 



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