PHYSICAL FEATURES. 39 



• From Jaliilpur for 16 miles to the W. N. W. the escarpment of the 

 Changes in the escarp- ^ain range is very plainly marked, rising gradually 

 "lent. in height from 1,852 feet to 2,275 feet (the level 



of the neighbouring part of the Jhelum river is about 700 feet), and the 

 width of this part of the range steadily increasing westwards from 2| to 

 6 miles. 



One of the most remarkable features of the eastern part of the 



range is that the strongly prevalent southerly 

 Bemarkable f eatiu'e. 



escarpment changes sides, so to speak, at Chambal 



mountain north of Jalalpur (where the strata have been most enor- 

 mously disturbed and faulted), an easterly dip of the beds giving a 

 westerly aspect to that portion of the scarp. At Mount Tilla, a few 

 miles distant, the southerly aspect is regained, but at the Diljaba end 

 of the Bakrala ridge the scarp faces the north-west, and again at 

 Karangli hill, overlooking the Choya-Saidan pass, a strongly marked 

 westerly escarpment occurs. This hill, 3,526 feet high, and that of 

 Chel near it, 3,701 feet, seem to be both displaced portions of a south- 

 westerly extension of the Diljaba and Bakrala ridge. Such variation 

 in the forms of the hills indicates, as might be supposed, corresponding 

 disturbance which will be noticed in its proper place. 



Another remarkable feature is that the direction of the whole range 

 Another remarkable changes abruptly near Sakesar, nearly at right 

 ^^^^S^- angles to its (east-by-north to west-by-south) 



course. Here it becomes very suddenly narrow for about 9 miles, bears 

 to the north-west-by-north, and loses in height, averaging 1,727 feet (with 

 a summit near Namal of 2,260 feet), and a width of two miles and less. 

 This abrupt change corresponds to features in the Trans-Indus extension 

 of the range, both together forming a deep, wide, and open sinus in 

 the hilly margin of the Indus plains, where that river debouches from 

 the mountains. This change is, however, more closely connected with 

 the general orography of the Upper Punjab than with the Cis-Indus Salt 

 Range, though it forms one of its most peculiar features. 



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