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twenty-five miles, and as only about 7000 feet or 8000 feet 

 from its summit were visible, and Kubra was foreshortened 

 against it, its appearance was not grand ; added to which, 

 its top was round and hummocky, not broken into peaks, 

 as when seen from the south and east. Villages and 

 cultivation became more frequent as we proceeded south- 

 ward, and our daily marches were up ridges, and down 

 into deep valleys, with feeders from the flanks of Sidingbah 

 to the Tambur. We passed through the village of 

 Tchonboong, and camped at Yangyading (4,100 feet), 

 sighted Yamroop, a large village and military post to tlie 

 west of our route, crossed the Pangwa river, and reached 

 the valley of the Khabili. During this part of the journey, 

 I did not once see the Tambur river, though I was day 

 after day marching only seven to ten miles distant from 

 it, so uneven is the country. The mountains around 

 Taptiatok, Mywa Guola, and Chingtam, were pointed out 

 to me, but they presented no recognizable feature. 



I often looked for some slope, or strike of the slopes of 

 the spurs, in any one valley, or that should prevail through 

 several, but could seldom trace any, except on one or two 

 occasions, at low elevations. Looking here across the 

 valleys, there was a tendency in the gentle slopes of the 

 spurs to have plane faces dipping north-east, and to be 

 bounded by a line of cliffs striking north-west, and facing 

 the south-east. In such arrangements, the upheaved cliffs 

 may be supposed to represent parallel lines of faults, dislo- 

 cation, or rupture, but I could never trace any secondary 

 valleys at right angles to these. There is no such uniformity 

 of strike as to give to the rivers a zig-zag course of any 

 regularity, or one having any apparent dependence on a 

 prevailing arrangement of the rocks ; for, though the strike 

 of the chlorite and clay-slate at elevations below 0000 fvct 



