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should be met with in the interval between that place and Oorie, but 

 such is not the case. 



Cliffe of the ^* alluvial " gravel form the north bank of the Jhelum 

 from Odrie to Gingle, there beiug a narrow level band of this accu- 

 mulation running the whole way between these two places, along 

 the base of the lofty limestone range on the north ; on the south the 

 peaks rise from 1000 to 3000 "feet above the river, and are covered 

 with Deodars (fig. 3). 



Eig. 3. — Sketch-jplan of the Alluvium on the Jhelum between Gingle 



and Oorie. 



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The Jhelum and the torrents which discharge themselves into it 

 have cut down their channels so as to have one bank composed of 

 the alluvium, and the other of the fundamental rock. With the 

 exception of the granite at Kuttai, Ooorie, and Gingle, the fragments 

 of rock in the alluvium are such as are to be found on the sides of the 

 valley, namely, limestone or trappean rock, with great quantities of 

 fine earthy matter. For this reason I cannot agree with Mr. Yigne, 

 that the " alluvium " of the gorge of the Jhelum was carried and 

 deposited there at the time when (as he supposes) the break of the 

 strata at the Baramula gorge took place. 



The fort at Gingle is situated in the alluvial plain or platform. 

 Here, as at Kuttai, a torrent comes down from the north ; the valley 

 expands, and is occupied with the alluvial deposit. An old line of 

 cliff may be here observed in the alluvium, separated by a second 

 level from the present bed of the Jhelum. 



The upper surface of the alluvium is a perfect level, as if the Bara- 

 mula gorge had been filled with water, forming small lakes at Gingle, 

 Oorie, and Kuttai ; and it seems to me that the whole of the allu- 

 vium was accumulated before the river began to cut down its way to 

 the level at which it now escapes. 



