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these people, even with their imperfect means. They told me they 

 were in number eighty, many of them of great length, and yet the 

 village is small, and does not contain above forty inhabitants of every 

 sex and age ; but there are several other villages that have a joint pro- 

 prietary right, the assessment being made on the small purgunnahs or 

 hundreds, as they might be called, and not on the individual villages. 



172. The limestone of Borela continues to Haje, with very little 

 interruption, and through a varying level of at least 1,500 feet. It 

 very often contains veins of a pure white calcareous spar, sometimes 

 it is foetid, and then it always appears to be less pure. In this latter 

 case, it is occasionally found to contain veins of white granular lime- 

 stone, and not unfrequently also, to pass into a flint slate or schist. It 

 has its subordinate and limited masses of local breccia, and con- 

 glomerate accompaniments, which this rock is never seen to want. It 

 is a good deal intermixed with quartz rock, and has occasionally, as 

 might be expected, a silicious character. With regard to its stratification, 

 it is when at all impure, distinctly marked by parallel seams, and when 

 pure, as often amorphous. This indeed is a remark I think universally 

 applicable to limestone. A very remarkable curvature of the strata 

 is seen on the ascent from the Mator nullah, which separates Haje 

 from Borela ; some indications of argillaceous schist were also observed 

 here. 



173. Near Haje, the rock may be called a well characterised argilla- 

 ceous schist, which afterwards becomes micaceous. This is succeeded 

 by a series of types of quartz rock of very various character. The 

 most remarkable feature in this rock is the suite of colours it exhibits : 

 grey, green, red, purple, and brown from the extreme shades, and in their 

 transitions, a great variety of intermediate tints are produced- In 

 general, it has a granular composition with considerable hardness. 

 The structure is occasionally cleavable in three or more directions, 

 occasionally it is subschistose. In the latter case, the rock is observed 

 to pass into an argillaceous schist. In general, this quartz rock owes 

 it colours to indurated clay, or a basis of clay slate, and it contains, 

 superadded to this ingredient, scales of mica, never in any abundance. 

 The composition is never of that decidedly granular appearance which 

 distinguishes the sandstones ; frequently it is evanescent where the pro- 

 portion of quartz is a little less predominant. I think this rock might 



