1842.] of the Himmalay a Mountains. cxxvii 



people of the country had their attention excited by this circumstance, 

 and attempted to obtain iron from it, which they supposed to be indicat- 

 ed by the red, yellow, and black colours. Failing in this, they do not 

 appear to have sought for any thing else. 



271. The micaceous schist again assumes its ordinary character 

 on the road to Bandunee Dihee, and is observed to dip N. E. 25°, at 

 an inclination of 35°. On the summit of that Peak, which forms a plane 

 200 by 20 yards, strata of garnetiferous schist are seen projecting. 

 The dip 30° N. E., inclination 35°. In the descent to the stream, it 

 changes to a talco-micaceous schist, of a pale lead grey colour, very soft, 

 and almost steatitic, with curved laminae, and passing into a white clay. 

 It contains nodules and grains of glassy quartz. The dip is North, the 

 inclination 30°. In the bed of the stream, the strata which are of the 

 ordinary character, dip 14° S. of E., the inclination being only 17°. 

 Ascending thence, we have micaceous schist, which continues to the can- 

 tonment ; the dip being generally between N. and E., and the inclina- 

 tion small. This schist is remarkable for its great variety of type, even 

 within the limits of so small a space as the cantonment ; 1 . yellowish 

 brown, scaly, tender; 2. quartzose, grey, in tolerably straight bat thick 

 slates, the two materials being disposed in layers; 3. less quartzose, in 

 thick large schists, with an undulated surface ; 4. blue or dark grey 

 approaching to the character of gneiss, and occasionally containing 

 very small portions of crystalline felspar; 5. a soft arenaceous mass, 

 which on exposure to the air, falls into sand. These are amongst 

 the most remarkable. The addition of garnets introduces many other 

 varieties. This schist is also to be noted as containing veins of gra- 

 nite of a very regular type, and also of felspar in a semi- disintegrated 

 slate, and of snowy whiteness. The latter might be also called a gra- 

 nite, as it contains quartz, and even mica; but the former is in small 

 quantity, and the latter consists of a few solitary scales disseminated. 



272. The ridge on which Almorah is situated, rises into the Peak 

 of Kaleenath, and in the ascent thereto the above described schist is 

 observed to pass into the same kind of soft earthy black rock, 

 which was described at Dhol. It was here that the graphite was 

 discovered, (alluded to in Art. 270,) lying on the surface in lumps, the 

 fragments of kidney or egg-shaped nodules. The largest specimen 

 obtained, however, was an oblate spheroid perfectly rounded, and having 



