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thing would have taken place had the Gaziarur raised its deposits 

 another thirty feet, and instead of flowing- to the south of Jakhama 

 it would have turned off to the northwards, where, through the in- 

 genuity of the Nagas, a portion of its waters at present flow. 



36. Deposits similar to the above described are also found below 



Khonoma, near Karuphima, and in Manipur terri- 

 Other localities. . . 



tory they are to be seen in the valley up which the 



road to Kohima runs ; but here, owing probably to the narrowness of the 

 valley, they have been so much eroded that but little of their original 

 sloping surface remains ; here indeed it would be more difficult to prove 

 that they were not morrainal, but the natural tendency to attribute their 

 origin to similar causes to those of the others, added to the improbability 

 of glaciers having ever descended to so low a level in these latitudes, is 

 strengthened by the occurrence of small patches of almost level ground, 

 gently sloping down the valley, which seem to have escaped the denu- 

 dation that has elsewhere, in this valley, served somewhat to conceal 

 the true nature of the deposit. 



37. Entering the Tiki valley from Sengmai the road at first runs over 

 the level alluvial surface of the Manipur valley ; 

 but before three miles have been traversed it 

 passes into rolling stony ground sparsely covered with stunted trees 

 and profusely scattered with boulders of slate and sandstone of all sizes and 

 for the most part more or less sub -angular over which the road is carried 

 till it makes a sudden drop to the level of the Tiki river ; here the true 

 nature of the tract just crossed is seen, for to the right is a narrow stretch 

 of almost level ground through which the river meanders from side to 

 side, while to the left abruptly rises a steep slope 100 feet in height, from 

 the top of which the surface slopes gently upwards to the foot of the 

 hills. It is on the north-east corner of this terrace that the thanna of 

 Kaithamabi is situated. North of the thanna the terrace terminates, and 

 a broad stretch of low land intersected by several streams slopes down to 

 the Tiki ; to the north of this, though no actual terrace can be detected 

 there are remnants of an old high-level deposit which for the most part, 

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