738 Capt. Herbert's Tour from Almorah, fyc. [No. 153. 



rocky banks almost meet. Features of this kind inevitably excite 

 the idea of the gradual development of a river's course, and the pre- 

 vious formation of many lakes. 4 p. m. Bar. 26.476, 61 ; 59; 51,5. 

 max. 72. River 56.3. Tent 6 1 .54. Outside 59. 5 1 ,5. 



20th Nov. — Marched to Poorena, about 6 miles. At 35m. 

 Kunsaree, a deep pool in the river bed. Rock dipping S. E. 

 A little further, valley opens and presents a fine sloping surface of 

 some extent. The whole covered with jungle grass, with the excep- 

 tion of a few fields here and there ; few villages visible. Cross a 

 small stream near camp; gneiss dipping to N. direction, N. 80 E. 

 4 p. m. Bar. 26.286, 72, 67-5, 54. Byznath about 1^ mile on the 

 Gaomuttee. The confluence of the Guroor close to this. 



2\st Nov. — Nowgaon. Road not so good to-day; to Nowgaon 

 about 6 or 7 miles. First part level, leaving Goamuttee valley and 

 following that of the Guroor, picturesque valley, the former looking 

 towards Runchoola; strange that such a fine valley should be so ill 

 cultivated, or rather uncultivated. Here and there a field in the 

 middle of the jungle grass, indicates perhaps the commencement of a 

 different state of things * 



Gurser Lillu, 2 villages. Puchunna to right 50 miles. Geonaee to 



left 90. Babburtola right a little back. Rock a chloritic schist, dips 



N. E. 20°. 



Ghersun-ka-khola, ? lnn m . ,, . .,. 



v . . , > .. 100 min to right. 



Kot-tulwaree. J & 



4 p. m. Bar. 25.686, 66, 59, 50. 



No. 16, 17^8, a schist of an anomalous character, perhaps a gneiss. 



Yellowish grey. Close to camp being like the rock near Ramgurh.t 



No. 17. Talcose gneiss? the Punnae and Ramgunga rock. 



No. 18. Chlorite or hornblende schist. 



No. 19. Talcose schist. No. 17> but with straight laminar structure. 



20/^ Nov. — No. 20. Gneiss bluish-grey, approaching to mica slate. 



# This valley, now called the Bijnath valley, is the largest in Kumaon, and al- 

 though 3,500 feet above the sea, no cultivators can remain in it on account of its 

 insalubrious climate. It was once thickly peopled, and at Kuthoor and on the Run- 

 choola ridge which stretches into the valley, was the seat of the ancient hill dynasty, 

 called the Kuthoor Rajahs, now quite extinct. Ruins of temples, cutcherries, chabou- 

 tras, &c. some of them beautifully carved, abound hereabouts. — J. H. B. 



t Ramgurh, between Almora and Bhamouree. 



