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readily detect in any landscape the differences of outline presented by dif- 

 ferent rocks, and will sometimes be able roughly to 



Coincidence of physi- 

 cal feature with geologi- trace geological boundaries to some limited extent, 

 cal Boundary. , 



when he obtains a wide view over even a new dis- 

 trict. In the district included on our map however, this is very remark- 

 ably the case. Perhaps, as regards the peculiarities of the landscape, 

 one of the best examples of this is furnished by the contrasts afforded 



Contrasted outline of b 7 the Mahade ™ Sandstone to the Damuda and 

 different rocks. Talcheer flags and shales. A person standing on 



one of the crumbling walls of Asseer fort (see map) and taking a pano- 

 ramic view will, if he looks north east, see the great masses of the Puch- 



„ „ . murri hills forming the most striking object 



Seen from Asseer- ° &> j 



S urh - within the range of his vision, with their grand 



slopes, and sheer precipices of rock, facing south. The long line of the 

 prolongation of that escarpment will bound his view as he turns north 

 and will be lost in the distance towards the north west. Between that 

 escarpment and the observer, several other minor ranges will be visible 

 running parallel to it, and all having a precipitous face towards the 

 south. On the prolongation of one of these he will find himself stand- 

 ing, and still another may be traced to the south nearly rivalling in 

 height the Puchmurri range, and, as thus seen from the north, very steep 

 though only here and there absolutely precipitous. Turning towards 

 the west he will look across the wide plain of the Tawa, bounded on the 

 north, as has been stated, by the prolongation of the Puchmurri range, 

 and on the east by the terminations of those parallel, and minor ranges, 

 on one of which Asseer fort was built. Opposite to him stand two high 

 hills, apparently the terminations, in that direction, of ranges like those 

 around him. The more southward of these is Bowerghur, and that to the 

 north of it Jamghur, both crowned by old forts like that from which he 

 is looking. But he will be at once struck by the difference of outline of 

 these two hills : the former, as well as the lower summits of the range 



