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KHASI HILLS. 



Contrasting very strongly with this general character of the Southern 

 portion of the range of hills, the surface of the 



General features of 



plateau towards the Northern portion presents a remarkably wavy and 



North. 



undulating outline. This character extends from 

 the neighbourhood of Mow-phlang to Nungklow, and may be well seen 

 near to, and North of the village of Myrung (a) (Fig. 2), or, looking 

 Southwards from Nungklow (Fig. 3), towards the Kullong rock. River 



valleys diversify the surface of this wavy plain, but these are of veiy 

 different character from those to the South. More open and spreading, 

 they offer none of those precipitous cliffs so common around Cherra 



(a) The buildings on the rising ground in the centre of the view are the guard-house and 

 outpost of the Sylhet Light Infantry at Jlyrung : while the larger house, a little below, is 

 one of the staging bungalows on the road to Assam, a part of which road is seen in the 

 foreground. The liouscs of the small Native village of Myrung are on the slope of the hill. 

 The indistinct outline of the saowy peaks of the Himalaya may be traced to the left of the 

 sketch. 



