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193. From the garden, the road descends obliquely along the face of 

 the range to the village of Juree Panee, in this line the limestone is lost 

 almost immediately, and argillaceous schists succeed. They are of various 

 colours, many of them very bright, red, yellow, green, grey, olive brown, 

 purple, &c. This change of colour is characteristic of this rock, which 

 is further remarkable for its different degrees of consistence, being at 

 one time soft and diffusible in water like clay, at others hard, and 

 though not furnishing good roofing slate, yet very similar in minera- 

 logical character to that substance. 



194. At Juree Panee, limestone again appears, but in small quantity ; 

 some specimens were observed of it containing veins of fibrous gypsum. 

 These were of the most regular type, and had no resemblance to the 

 black scoriaceous rock before noticed, as associated with the gypsum 

 near Ranon. The argillaceous schist again establishes itself, and con- 

 tinues to Rajpoor at the foot of the descent. In this line it is rather 

 harder, in general, than that above described, and inclines more to blue, 

 purple, and green colours. It contains masses of quartz rock often 

 strongly impregnated with the matter of the slate. At the foot of the 

 descent, the structure appears to change to that already described 

 Art. 1 84, as consisting of thin folise or leaves scarcely adhering, and of 

 very limited size. 



195. The mountains which bound the Doon to the north, and which 

 stretch from the Jumna to the Ganges, are all composed of argillaceous 

 schist. Beds of limestone occur similar to those already described, but 

 never of any great extent. Gypsum also similar to that at Ranon is 

 found, and under similar relations at two other places, and it is pro- 

 bable, will be eventually discovered at many more. In the bed of the 

 stream in which the Sunsar Dhora, or Dripping Cave, is situated, and 

 about a mile higher up, may be seen the remains of a very large bed of 

 this substance, the greater part having been removed by quarrying. It 

 lies in the same kind of superficial amorphous mass, and is associated 

 with the same foetid anomalous black rock as at Ranon. There are two 

 varieties which lie in contact, and between which, a kind of transition 

 takes place. The one is of a beautiful saccharoidal aspect, of a snowy 

 white colour and fine granular composition. The other is of a dirty 

 white colour, approaching to yellowish grey, and the composition is 

 finer, almost impalpable ; nor are the minute crystals discoverable in 



