1844.] Capt. Herbert's Tour from Aim or ah, fyc. 749 



A remarkable isolated spreading hill, 295°. A high hill with broad 

 top 324° 43'— 12^° E. + 4|°=17— steep descent from Pass, afterwards 

 easier. One hour to Nowgaon. Soonkolee about f mile further, total 

 3 hours, and good road. From the Pass down greywacke slate, 

 with frequently a talcose aspect on the laminar planes, remarkable for 

 splitting in the direction of the lamina, and for breaking with a sort of 

 cleavage across them. 



13th Dec— Ther. to 58° at 1 p. m, 5 p. m. 25.255, 61 .5, 57- 56 5 52. 

 Cloudy. Nowgaon to Lireea on the left bank of Muchlad, 2} hours, 

 about 7 miles, road good. Ascend and descend several times, passing 

 by Musmoor and Poktar, latter up a nulla, which falls into Much- 

 lad. Rocks greywacke slate, olive bluish, &c, much of the red colour. 

 Cloudy and I fear snow. Present dip=47> so far good. Hill uncom- 

 monly bare round. 



\4th Dec, — Ther. 41 minimum. Heavy dew, steep descent to cross 

 Muchlad, a middling stream. A very crabbed ascent, wind round 

 glen to right and descend a little to Khergoan. 



Greywackes late the whole way, some appearances indicating the 

 passage of this slate into chlorite slate and talc slate. Another pecu- 

 liarity is the nodules of quartz or amorphous masses, also veins of 

 every shape and size.* It has often struck me, that quartz is the 

 granite of the clay slate and greywacke formations. 



\5th Dec. — Cloudy with partial gleams, time of marching 2 J hours. 

 Descend to stream and ascend, wind round to Kande village on hill. 

 Descend to stream, steep ascent, and wind round to right to Dang, 

 part of Binjolee. 4— Bar. 25.665, 66.59, 51.5. 



Occasionally cloudy, rocks to-day the same greywacke slate, very 

 smooth and shining laminae. Often breaks into prismatic fragments ; 

 here the slaty structure predominates, and I think excellent roof 

 slate might be found, perhaps even writing slate and an inferior whet 

 slate. 



\6th Dec.'— Ther. min. 44. Cloudy morning, a long, and fatiguing 

 march to Chamasee village on flat banks of Sanee. Steep descent, 3h. 

 40m. time of march, rocks same as yesterday. Bar. 24. 27, 715, 69.5, 

 67.5, 59.5. 



* l have certainly seen slate rocks very much disturbed in the neighbourhood of 

 quartz veins. — J. H. B. 



