72 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS EXTENSION OF THE PUNJAB SALT RANGE. 



enclosed in these upper or middle Siwalik rocks are not greatly less in 

 size than those in the Siwalik conglomerates of Makhad (on the Indus), 

 while those at present brought by that river into the recent deposits near 

 Bilot and Kafirkot (South) have dwindled to the size of walnuts and less. 



Paniala is famous for the fine springs of fresh water which issue near 

 it and from which the hill station of Shekh Budin is supplied. A sandy 

 plain stretches away to the frontier mountains to the west, and the fine 

 mass of the Gund or Shekh Budin rises boldly 3 miles off to the north- 

 west, while the homogeneous, bare and deeply fretted sandstone range 

 of the Nfla Roh blocks the view to the north and north-east. 



Section V. — Shekh BudIn Gund. 



This peak forms as it were a large protruding boss about 6 miles long 

 by 2 wide, rising some 1,500 feet or more above 

 the Nila Roh, just at the angle which this ridge 

 makes with the lower Bhatani range. Its summit is marked 4,638 feet 

 above the sea, at the most lofty part of the frontier hill station situated 

 thereon. The mountain is sparsely wooded with scattered scrub, and has, 

 over most of its stony surface, an orange tint contrasting with the bluish- 

 gray colour of the Nila Roh, except to the southward and east, where lofty 

 precipices display the many-coloured variegated portion of the Jurassic 

 series and some of the underlying formations. 



One profound ravine, that of the Hasham tanga or algad, nearly 

 cuts off the northern from the southern part of the mountain, and there 

 are others, shorter, but of great depth and steepness, on the north, east, 

 and south, most of them radiating more or less from the culminating peak 

 or gund. All are waterless or nearly so, and to the south and westward 

 terminate in broad stony vaans (wans) crossing the belt of boulder ground 

 which borders the hills in these directions ; while to the northward they 

 enter the small sandy flats forming the Pezu pass amongst the tertiary 

 sandstone hill's. 

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