184 WYNNE : TRANS- INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



beds rising boldly over the axis of the Malgheen (Malgin) salt quarry 

 ellipsoid, the synclinal hollow in which the Teeree (Tin) river flows being 

 filled with smaller anticlinal arches and synclinal curves, while so rocky 

 is the ground, that each bed might almost be counted. At a short distance 

 to the east, these smaller contortions disappear, and the beds sweep round 

 the eastern end of the wide gypsum expansion, at the same time rising 

 towards the rugged crest of the Hukani hills. 



Between Nundrukki boorj and the summit of Sookawar (Siikawur) 

 Hokunni (3,170 + 70 feet=3,240 feet) a substra- 



Hokunni Mountain. 



turn of gypsum is covered by a broken crust of 



nummulitic limestone, in some places almost appearing to be in situ, as if 

 large masses of the adjacent outcrop had here settled into a horizontal posi- 

 tion. The very summit of the mountain is a narrow vertically bedded east 



Sookawar Hokunni and west crag, towering above everything else in 

 its neighbourhood, seen from the north appearing 

 as a hog-backed rise, but looking like a huge obelisk when viewed 

 in the direction of its length. Around the crag, great fragments of 

 limestone are piled, sometimes of the size of houses, and on its slippery 

 apex there is barely room for three or four men to perch themselves. 

 Looking from here, the compressed and very steeply inclined folds of 

 the limestone are seen followed within by the red clay zone and pro- 



The surrounding conn- Options of gypsum, and outside by the lower beds 

 tr y- of the tertiary sandstone series, plunging down 



below the valley of a deep sandy bedded nullah tributary to the Teeree 

 Towey (Tiri Taui) . Beyond this nullah the long horizontally stretch- 

 ing outcrops of the middle beds of the same group sweep round the 

 opposite hills, slightly inclined from the spectator, all the upper part of 

 these hills showing for a great thickness the peculiarly billowy, fretted, 

 and mammillated surface, produced by the rapid disintegration of the 

 soft glistening sands of the upper part of this great tertiary group, ex- 

 tending thence to the Indus above Mokud. 

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