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Puchmurri range westwards. These facts again prove the existence of 



a great denudation, where powerful agency must have been long at work 



to effect the results before us. But what may be 

 Farther evidence. 



called the minor features of the denudation of the 



great sandstone masses also present some striking peculiarities. 



Fig. 24 represents one of the gorges of the Puchmurri Hills which 

 will give a good idea of the characteristic outlines of the weathering of the 

 sandstone masses. But the finest and most remarkable of these glens 

 is that by which the Sahbudra river flows through the mass of the Puch- 

 murri range to join the Deinwa on the north of it. The gorge is nar- 

 row, often not 300 feet across, and with almost vertical sides frequently 

 1,800 feet high. 



Fig. 24. View of gorge in the Puchmurri Hills. 



Having thus endeavoured to show the enormous extent of the denuda- 

 tion which has obtained by pointing out some of the more prominent 

 evidences of the former existence of solid masses now removed, I shall 



