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high angle, of 55°. At Kande, a small village about that distance below 

 Dhoora Peak, mica slate is established, and continues to the mine 

 where it contains a bed of limestone, in which rock the mine appears 

 to be situated. Some of the best specimens of calcareous spar are ob- 

 tainable here, though great part of the limestone itself is very impure, 

 containing 20 per cent, of foreign matter. At the mine, it appears 

 to be stratified, and dips 55° N., at an angle of 34°. The ore is in the 

 form of a vein, to judge from the miner's descriptions. It is of a 

 brownish black colour, granular composition, very hard, and breaks with 

 a conchoidal fracture. It is not magnetic, or at least only very slight- 

 ly. The specific gravity is 3.7 to 4.0, but as it is obviously contaminated 

 with some foreign ingredient, this determination is too low. It is most 

 probably (the pure part) titanitic iron, (axotomous iron ore.) It is 

 very imperfectly smelted, and sold in a spongy impure state, at the 

 rate of a maund for a Rupee. 



268. A remarkable feature in the granan is the number of veins it 

 contains. These consist almost wholly of felspar and quartz, the 

 former mineral forming the larger proportion, for it is always of an 

 opaque aspect, apparently impure, very cleavable, so as to prevent 

 the acquisition of specimens of any size. This structure I think it 

 owes to its impurity, and that it is the intervention of the quartz which 

 occasions its separation into fragments. There are other veins which 

 are to be observed also in the hardest blocks This is a granite of a 

 finer grain, which is sometimes seen to traverse the great boulders, or 

 large round fragments, and they are like most veins separated by a 

 strong line from the surrounding base or ground. Some few imperfect 

 quartz crystals have been found. Epidote has occurred in company 

 with ill- defined large crystals of white opaque felspar ; schorl is found 

 in abundance. In one instance it forms a very large vein in a bed of 

 quartz rock. But the most interesting inhabitant of this singular 

 rock is yet wanting to complete its resemblance to the granan of Corn- 

 wall. Tin has never been found in it, though as the oxide and sulphuret 

 of this metal are so unlike the general run of metallic ores, it is possible 

 the non-discovery of it may be owing to the ignorance of the people 

 concerning the value or appearance of such mineral. 



269. The granite continues to Sarput-ka-Dhoora in a direction 

 a little beyond which it gives place to gneiss, and this to mica slate, 



