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or wild sheep {Ovis cycloceros) of these hills. The beds which more 

 immediately overlie the limestone are of grey sandstone^ lumpy shales, and 

 pseudo-conglomerate. Some of the sandstones are very coarse, and in one 

 of these a short bone, like the humerus of a reptile, was found, which 

 broke, however, in the effort to remove it. Overlying these and reaching 

 along the base of the hill is the strong red clay zone, before alluded to, 

 succeeded by soft grey Siwalik sandstones and light brown clays (see 

 fig. 10, PI. XI). 



The most interesting circumstance connected with this Bakrala 

 Similarity to Murree ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ identity some of its beds present 

 ^^^^' to the Murree group, and in consequence to the 



older tertiary rocks of the Sub-Himalayan series, while this identity^, 

 together with the occurrence of bones, bone fragments, and Mastodon 

 teeth, seems to present in one group the characteristics both of the lower 

 tertiary and the Siwalik divisions. 



Section II. — Mount Tiixa Ridge. 



A short paper has already appeared in the Records of the Geological 



Survey* explanatory of the geology of Mount 



Tilla ; ^still, as the ridge claims a place among the 



connecting links between the Salt Range and the Himalaya^ it must be 



noticed. The eastern termination of the Tilla 



Eastern termination. -r,., ,, iin jm iT>ji? 



Ridge just crosses the Grand Trunk Road, irom 



which the hill itself may be plainly seen, looking all the finer because it 



is viewed endways and full advantage given to its height of 3,242 feet 



above the sea. The ridge has a length of 26 miles, but the western part 



only is lofty, a few bungalows upon its summit near the Pir (or sacred 



locality of the ijiatives), with its fine old tank and temples, surrounded by 



various trees (among which a deodar is conspicuous), forming a small 



but picturesque sanatarium for Jhelum station. 



* Records, Geol. Survey of India, Vol. Ill-, pt. IV, p. 81. 



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