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a lake on the summit of a mountain 12,00 feet in height, to the 

 N. of the town, and is visited both by Hindoo and Mussulman pil- 

 grims, each assigning his own reason for the appearance of the 

 water.* As to Cohat and other places already mentioned, we have 

 large springs issuing from the limestone rock. In proceeding to- 

 wards Peshawur, we again meet with alternations of sandstone and 

 limestone till we arrive at Attock, when we find a dark bluish-black or 

 reddish-brown clay slate, and cutting through it on the W. side of the 

 river there are beds of trap (greenstone,) which lead to the supposition, 

 that the slate, which has many of the characters of a transition slate, is 

 nothing but a metamorphic slate clay of the saliferous series, altered by 

 the action of heat. This supposition is strengthened by finding it 

 associated with rocks belonging to this series. It dips to the S. under 

 an angle of 35° to 55°. 



Proceeding in a South-easterly direction from Hussun Abdal via Ra- 

 wal Pindee, Manukeealla, Buckralla, and Rotus to Jehlum, we pass over 

 strata first composed of limestone (magnesian,) succeeded by sandstone 

 and red marl, which is well seen in the wild mountainous and rugged 

 country extending from Buckralla to Kora, a distance of three coss, the 

 route winding through a deep ravine, the mountains rising to a height of 

 several hundred feet above it. The descent into this ravine is by a 

 Pass, also several hundred feet in height, but which has been so levelled 

 and formed by salient and re-entrant angles, as to allow a loaded camel 

 either to proceed up or down. The rocks are red, green and white 

 marls and sandstone, all highly inclined. On crossing the Jehlum, we 

 pass over a few small hills, and composed of sandstone, probably of an 

 age similar to that which contains the fossil organic remain^ found so 

 well developed in the Sevalic range, between the Jumna and Sutledge, 

 and from thence got into the open plain, the structure of which we have 

 already noticed. With these remarks, we conclude our account of the 

 Neptunian rocks, which form the strata of the salt range. 



* By the Hindoos it is said that Baba Nanuck struck the rock, and made the 

 water come forth. By the Mussulman it is said that on Mullah Allee Moortuzza, 

 ,the brother of the prophet visiting this place, the mountain advanced to meet him ; 

 on coming near to it, he ordered it to remain, and water issued forth from the place 

 on which his hand rested, and several others. This happened about twelve hundred 

 years ago ! 



