6 MIDDLEMISS : GEOLOGY OF HAZARA AND BLACK MOUNTAIN. 



configuration of the country in relation to the geological structure. 

 The plan adopted of colouring the plates with the same tints as 

 used on the map 1 recommends itself to me as a simple and effective, 

 though not altogether novel, way of shewing the individual forma- 

 tions, which are too much masked by forest and cultivation to present 

 peculiarities that could be seized and represented in line-drawing 

 alone, especially when viewed from a distance. All these were drawn 

 with the camera lucida and may be trusted to give a faithful repre- 

 sentation of the forms and slopes of the country without personal 

 exaggeration. The sketch sections and diagrams are from pocket- 

 book sections, and notes and data made on the spot. They are not 

 drawn to any particular scale. 



I may parenthetically remark that in the text of this Memoir I 

 have generally adhered to the old spelling of names of villages, &c, 

 because it is the spelling adopted on the accompanying map. 

 Anyone can transform it into the more modern form of the Hun- 

 terian system by remembering that Hureepoor (pronounced like the 

 English words " hurry " and "poor") would be written in that 

 system Haripur, and Punjab would be similarly written Panjab. 

 Names such as Hazara, Rawalpindi, etc., I have, however, written in 

 the modern style. 



The following is a tabulated list of all the important contributions 



to the geology of Hazara that I have been able 

 Literature. 



to find. It is chronologically arranged. As I 



have already acknowledged my indebtedness to the chief original 



workers in the district, I shall leave all discussion of points in 



which I have differed from the views and observations expressed by 



these writers, until I come to describe the individual sections in 



the body of the Memoir :— 



Vicary, " On the Geology of the Upper Punjaub and Peshaur." Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc, Lond., Vol. VII, p. 38, 1851. 

 * Verchere, "On the Geology of Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and Afghan 



Mountains." Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, Vol. XXXV, p. 89, 1866; 



Vol. XXXVI, p. 28, 1867. 



1 Economy in printing the colours of the map has led to a slight alteration in them : the 

 Infra-Trias coloured neutral tint on the drawings is a pale blue on the map. 



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