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cliffs of this valley, differ entirely in direction from the main break, 

 but may be branches from it, running more east and west. Their 

 throw is not considerable. 



There may possibly be some connection between the " line of weak- 

 ness " along which these faults took place, and the reputed prevalence 

 of earthquakes about Dilwal. One of these is said to have destroyed 

 the Salt Officer's old bungalow on the cliff edge, only the northern half 

 of which, forming a poor habitation, was standing when I visited the 

 place. 



Section VIII. — Malot Table-land. 



The Malot table-land is a lofty and broken rocky spur, parallel with 



the Kharder branch of the Makrach glen, and 

 Described. _ _ ^ 



rising between it and the plains. The south- 

 eastern portion undulates much, while in the opposite direction the 

 ground slopes gently eastward from the Simbal escarpment, overlooking 

 the Sardi gorge ;^ northward, towards Kandoya, the plateau undulates, 

 is hilly, or slopes to the north-westward. 



The upper portion of this table-land is occupied by the light grey 



nummulitic limestone, differing but little from 

 Nummulitic limestone. 



that of the Dilwal and Kahun country, except that 



it is perhaps less cherty. Its fossils are, as in other places, chiefly 

 casts of large Gastropods and bivalves with some large Echinoderms, 

 all in an imperfect state. The cliffs which bound this plateau to the 

 southward and west are more lofty and bold than those to the eastward; 

 and the thickness of the limestone, with some allowance for denudation, 

 may be assumed at 250 to 350 or even 400 feet. Parts of the escarp- 

 ment sometimes seem, as at Malot, to have slipped downwards between 

 small parallel fissures or faults. 



* This gorge is generally known by the first name, and the salt mines are spoken of as 

 the Sardi mines. Dr. Fleming calls it the " Serai " gorge (p, 241), and natives of the country 

 spoke of it as the Seriarik Wan, 



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