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character, which I had occasionally remarked before, of ' tesselatiou,' 

 that is, were divided into little quadrilateral blocks, the upper edges of 

 which were rounded. 



" Beyond the Barrarra pass, where the fight took place, the lower 

 strata visible were the coloured disintegrating beds, generally at a 

 high angle with dip to south-west ; the higher hills of the waved 

 limestone dipping to S. W. at a low angle. 



" On the 5th, we made a march of 15 miles, notwithstanding our 

 many wounded, to Kaneegorm, and the flora was so new, that I had 

 not much leisure for looking at the rocks. Our camp at Kaneegorm 

 was trigonometrically 6,700 feet above the sea level, and we probably 

 rose more than 2,500 feet in that march. 



" We gradually appeared to leave the limestone rocks, although 

 (occasionally) the coloured rocks were seen overlaid by limestone, 

 and got among hills composed of slate in very thin beds, mostly 

 and frequently with markings of angle (?) over then - surface. These 

 slate strata were frequently contorted and wavy. 



" For the last two days the quantity of granitic stones among 

 the gravel, was very much on the increase. About and below Pala- 

 sin> (the place whence I wrote my last letter,) hardly a bit of granite 

 was to be seen ; here the shingle is almost entirely granitic. 



" 6th halt. — 7th. — I went with the survey party to the top of a 

 hill to the S. S. W. some six miles off, and 1600 feet higher than 

 the Kaneegorm camp. The strata on the way appeared mostly of 

 what looks like a thin bedded sandstone (?) generally dipping to 

 N. W. at pretty high angles. 



" Our road up to Kaneegorm had lain still in the bed of the Zam 

 ravine, and latterly in that of one of its tributaries. As we got 

 near the centre of the range here the streams became quite small. 



" On the 8th, we marched eight miles down the stream on the 

 same road by which we had come, and then I bad more opportunity 

 of noticing that in a general way the ranges run north and south, 

 and that the strata, although occasionally horizontal and often con- 

 torted, are generally at an angle of about 15°, with the dip to the 

 west (W. N. W). The beds are mostly thickish and of slaty rock, 

 with occasional strata of bluish disintegrating schistose structure. 



" There were, however, but few sections to be seen on account of 



