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must be near the ore, and made some efforts to get at some place 

 whence they dig it, but am sorry to say, failed. 



" 15th. — We went more to eastward descending towards Bunnoo 

 in the ravine of the Khyssor stream. The rocks mostly slaty, and 

 the ' vitrified' at high angle dip to the west, and often covered by 

 horizontal shingle beds to 50 or 60 feet, which obscure matters 

 greatly, so that sometimes for a mile or two no rock in situ could 

 be seen. The lower beds of this shingle are here occasionally con- 

 solidated into conglomerate. 



" 16th. — The strata, mostly of the dark " vitrified" surfaced rock, 

 generally at about 45° dip to west. Then a grey rock with white 

 streaks (limestone) nearly horizontal and contorted, then with a strong 

 dip to west and still contorted ; occasional shaly beds. 



" 17th. — Halt. Here we were in a region of plateaux of the horizon- 

 tally laid gravel with, a mile or two to south, the western termination 

 of a flat sloping hill with the strata dipping slightly to' the east. 



" 18th. — A mile or two on we pass through the gorge formed by 

 the stream crossing through the end of the above hill, which is of 

 non-fossiliferous limestone. This appears to be near the geological 

 ' level' of Palasin ; for here, also, there are numeroiis heaps of the 

 black decomposed rock we had there, with other particoloured debris : 

 vertical strata of the white non-fossiliferous limestone. Numerous 

 blocks of the coralline (?) rock seen lying about, but I could not get 

 near any of them. Nummulitic blocks and pebbles numerous among 

 the shingle. Then after about a mile of these heaps of coloured 

 debris we go through a gorge formed by nearly vertical ridges of 

 dark coloured hard sandstone, followed by sandstone strata also at a 

 high angle (dipping to east) with one or two strata of conglomerate. 

 Blocks of the dark superficially vitrified stone profusely strewn over 

 all the heights. 



" On the 19th a mile and a half carried us from among these low 

 ridges into the Bunnoo plain, here stony, mostly uncultivated, and 

 sloping from the hills." 



In forwarding these extracts, Mr. Oldham writes as follow : — 



Nainital, June 9th, 1S60. 



My dear. GtEote,— I enclose you a brief extract from a note received 

 from Dr. Stewart of the 14th Punjab Infantry, who is at present with 



