1844.] CapL Herbert's Tour from Almorah, fyc. 737 



No. 14, black talc slate. No. 15, 1767, granitic talcose quartz rock 

 above confluence with Gaomuttee river.* 



Marched to Dangun, village on confluence of a stream with Gao- 

 muttee river ; rocks very little visible, at first small patches of dolomite 

 crystalline granular, intermixed with black potstone and black pot- 

 stone slate. Then a large tract of compact quartz rock, and latterly 

 of granitic structure, similar to what I have obtained in the Ramgun- 

 ga and at Punnae.t This is a curious rock, and well deserves a name. 



The road was an easy descent the whole way. Very little cultiva- 

 tion, except at Doba and about half way below Jowkande. Here there 

 is a fine wide valley well cultivated. The Gaomuttee is a large stream, 

 even in this month it is about breast deep. We crossed it by a sunga. 

 Umsaree Kot-ka Gudhera is the name of the glen we came down from. 

 Doba. The village is below Jowkande. Sunset at 4 p.m. Ther. 73, 

 min. 57- Dry 9 cylind. 13. wet 27, 4 p. m. 26.878, 77-5, 72.5, 58-7^, 

 max. 34 dew. 



19th Nov. — Umtola and Kholee, two pretty white villages on 

 opposite sides of a glen that comes down parellel to that of Doba. 

 Mohot 1J hour on left bank, fine deep place in the river like a 

 small lake, about 2 or 300 yards long. Rock, which has been some- 

 thing of a gneiss, changes here to a hornblende or chlorite schist, a 

 compound rock. Path generally good, with easy ascent along left 

 bank. The rock is distinctly stratified in many places, generally the 

 strata are vertical. Here the dip to North at an angle of 56°. The 

 rock changes to the type No. 15, and continues all the way distinctly 

 stratified, dipping near 20° N. W., with a high angle (50°). Road passes 

 into a feeder of the Gaomuttee, and then back again over the side range 

 without ascent to the parent valley. A Jood village on right bank. 

 Encamp in bed of river about 3£ miles beyond. Time 3 hours =9 

 miles. One or two difficult rocky places. 



The valley is as yet narrow, except here and there for about | a 

 mile or so, and then even of no great width. In some places the 



* Great care should be taken in the Museum to compare Capt. Herbert's descrip- 

 tions with his specimens. The mineral characteristics will at once shew to what 

 series his numbers on the specimens refer. No. 11 is also 1763, and " Blue lime- 

 stone with white veins" will at' once shew its difference from any other. No. 11 is 

 another series. — J. H. B. 



t The fine valley of Punnae, on the Aluknunda between the Dhunpoor and the 

 Pokree copper mine mountains.— J. H. B. 



