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which it has a depth of perhaps 30 feet or more ; although at Bagesur, 

 some miles below this point, it is fordable, being scarcely three feet 

 in depth. The tendency of this rock to be worn into caverns and 

 hollows is a very curious feature, nor am I aware that any satisfactory 

 explanation has been given of it. The dip at this place was observed 

 to be S. 30° W., and the inclination 52°. 



243. Hence to Bagesur, one of those extensive flats so often formed 

 in the river beds prevails, nor is any rock in situ discoverable ; at that 

 place the strata are quartz rock, and they dip N. E. The river bed is 

 full of rounded limestone fragments, but below the confluence of the 

 Goamuttee, which originates in the valley described in Art. 65, the frag- 

 ments are as often gneiss and quartz rock. Another extensive flat 

 reaches from this point for nearly two miles, and debars access to the 

 rock. At its termination, calcareous tufa and conglomerate are seen, but 

 not apparently of great extent. A third flat then occurs, and after 

 passing it, argillaceous schist is established, and it continues in the 

 ascent to the Cheer Nullah, a small stream which comes down from the 

 range separating the vallies of the Surjoo and Cosillah. We have then a 

 limestone of a yellow color and fine granular, containing a large propor- 

 tion of talc, and a little higher up, nests of indurated talc are found of 

 a light buff colour. Thence, argillaceous schist and limestone are 

 irregularly mixed, the latter forming the summit of the range. It is 

 of a magnesian character when pure, being in fact a compact dolomite ; 

 but is generally so much charged with siliceous matter, as to become a 

 kind of chert. In its pure magnesian state too, it has no inconsiderable 

 resemblance to the latter rock. The colour is a bluish grey, which 

 occasionally changes to flesh colour. It contains veins of galena, 

 (hexahedral lead glance.) The strata when observable, appear to dip 

 N. 60° E., at an angle of 60°. 



244. In descending from this range, argillaceous schist is again met 

 with of a very soft type, and of various bright colours, similar in fact, to 

 the rock observed in the Cosillah, (Art. 152.) The strata are so irregular 

 in dip that no mean result can be attained. It sometimes contains 

 quartz. In ascending to the Kurnyud Pass, micaceous schist occurs, 

 and occasionally with felspar ; fragments of gneiss are abundant. Des- 

 cending from this Pass into the Suttralie glen, we find an earthy 

 gneiss, very similar to that described in Art. 134, which prevails in the 



