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KHASI HILLS. 



Granite near Joowai. 



Granite of similar lithological character is seen again several miles 

 to the Eastward of the districts to which I hav£ 

 just referred. It shews on the surface four or 

 five miles North of Joowai, and again near to the village of Pooring, 

 and between that and Nurtiung. It is essentially the same in compo- 

 sition as that near Mollm, though not quite so largely crystalline. The 

 boundary of this granite I had no opiDortunity of tracing out. 



Independently of these more extended areas in which granite occurs, it 



is seen in a few more limited and isolated positions. 



Kullong hill. ^ p , i , i • , 



01 these the most remarkable is the cunous and 



very prominent rock, called the Kullong (a) (Fig. 18). This huge mass 



of granite stands up boldly from the undulating surface of the country 

 around, looking like a great dome of about 500 feet high. To the East 

 and North-East it slopes a Httle more gradually, and is thickly cloth- 

 ed with timber. On the Western and South- Western sides it pre- 

 sents a naked mass of rock rising nearly perpendicularly tipwards of 700 



(a) See also Fig. 3. 



