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possibly indicate the source of the Wuzeeree (Waziri) iron imported 

 from that wild country lying to the westward of this district. 



The overlying limestone is contorted and disturbed, rolling over the 

 hills with a preponderance of northerly dip. 



The ridge formed by this gypsum and limestone soon declines and 

 disappears, but the range is carried on eastwards 



Southern ridge dies out, 



the range continued by by two others from Kurar mountain, one of which 



two others. j ^ 



to the north, called Zyarutti pahar, shortly becomes 



separated from the intervening ridge by a considerable rugged and 



rocky central valley. This Zyarutti ridge, like 



Zyarutti ridge. 



many others of the country, is a half anticlinal, 

 the other half having disappeared in a long fault at its southern base. 

 At its western end the anticlinal just overturns the axis, the limestone 

 being followed round by fine bold rocky outcrops of the tertiary sand- 

 stones. Close to the eastward of the summit the arrangement is some- 

 what disordered by a cross fault which clearly lets down a mass of the 

 sandstones below the limestone level. From this to the interruption of 

 the ridge at the Mittan pass the relations are normal, the gypsum, red 

 zone, nummulitic limestone and sandstones, &c, succeeding each other, 

 but towards the pass the limestones come more across the axis tending 

 to complete the curve, while the southern or gypseous slope is, as usual, 

 smooth or overshot by debris, and fails to expose the rocks as they project 

 on the crest and northern side. 



In the gypsum area nearly beneath the summit are two small 



(reputed) rock-salt localities. This Zyarutti hill 

 Salt localities. . . * . 



commands a fine view of the neighbouring coun- 

 try and the Sufed Koh and other Afghan mountains rising behind the 

 Affreedee (Affridi) hills. Its section, however, does not seem to present 

 Fossiliferous bands in anything remarkable, except that towards the 

 the limestone. lower half of the nummu n t i c li mes tone, there are 



some of the white softer marly beds abounding with the usual fossils, 



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