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rocks, which occasionally appear to pass into the common earthy mica- 

 ceous schist, occasionally into an amorphous granite. It contains schorl 

 occasionally in nests. The boulders are very numerous, and the granite 

 is in places a perfect granan. The gneiss, when well denned, contains 

 garnets. Hence to Dhout, the latter rock and micaceous schist may be 

 considered the prevailing rocks. On the summit of the Pass above, 

 gneiss is also found of that type, which inclines rather to micaceous 

 schist than to granite. Hence descending, the granite is again met 

 with, but under relations which will bear a little more detail. 



281. The appearances I am going to describe may be seen a little to 

 the east of the village Dhooeet. In a geological sense, the rock may be 

 called a gneiss, but it exhibits small patches, (forming regular transitions 

 amongst themselves,) of the most regular micaceous schist, (earthy type,) 

 and again of the most legitimate granite, (granan). These three rocks, so 

 different in composition, in mineralogical character, and in supposed geo- 

 logical origin, may be here observed in the compass of a few yards, all 

 naturally interchangeable, while nothing like a veinous appearance can 

 be attributed to any of them. A long zone or belt is marked by huge 

 boulders of gneiss or granite, (for I could not examine them closely,) 

 strewed over it, and such is the declivity of the mountain side, that we 

 cannot for a moment suppose that they have rolled into their pre- 

 sent places. They are in fact like those of Dihee, the harder nodules 

 of a rock many feet in depth, which has disappeared owing to the 

 power of waste. The dip of this rock, which in its gneiss and 

 mica slate types is regularly stratified, is N. 48° to 55° E., inclination 

 about 48°. In the descent from this village, we find the chloritic 

 argillaceous schist mentioned in Art. 116. 



282. The whole of these beds are upon the same line, which is, as 

 before observed, parallel to the direction of mountain land and of the 

 strata. In prolonging this line to the westward as far as the Sutlej, 

 only one other locality of granite is met with. This is the Choor 

 Peak, a mountain which rises to the height of twelve thousand feet, 

 and which has no equal or rival within a circle of sixty miles diameter. 

 The shape is that of a long block or ridge running N. N. W. and 

 S. S. E., about one and a quarter mile in length, which rises suddenly 

 on the N. W. extremity into a sharp rocky peak many feet higher. 

 To the S. E., it sinks suddenly into a well-wooded range, where the 



