DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY : SLATE ZONE. 1 27 



by the latter to be of Infra-Trias limestone. I myself was at the 

 time more or less incapacitated for hard scrambling by an accident 

 to my right wrist. 



Still, apart from details, it seems clear that we have all along this 

 bit of country, from the Turnawaee glen to Dubbun, a strike continua- 

 tion of the complex of steep isoclinal folds of Infra-Trias and Trias, 

 such as were found in the Turnawaee gorge and south-west of Koond 

 in the direction of Kakoel and Meerpoor. 



At the little pass north of Dubbun, we are on the watershed divid- 



Section down from in 3 the streamS §° in g SOUth-west to the Indus 



the Rutwala stream. f r0 m those going north-east to the Koonhar. 



Functionally, therefore, it is a continuation of the north and south 

 watershed which goes by Tandia"ni Mianjani, etc., referred to (oro- 

 graphy of the Slate zone, p. 95) and the gap is homologous to Beerun 

 Gullee, Nathia Gullee, etc., to which reference will be made later. 

 The true analogues of the gap are of course to be found along the line 

 of the boundary fault, where a marked elevation of the hill spurs to 

 the south-east and a lowering of them to the north-west, together 

 indicate that line very plainly. 



The way up to the pass, along which we have come, has been a 

 gradual slope leading by the Icher N. from the level of the Mansehruh 

 plain ; but the descent to the Koonhar is of the nature of a sudden 

 drop. The Mansehruh plain to the north near Phughu, where the 

 road to Gurhee-Hubeeboolah goes, gives way in a similarly sudden 

 way, the earth seeming to open at our feet in deep ravines and gorges 

 tributary to the Koonhar. The view from the little pass into the 

 basin of the Koonhar is very striking. Across the valley an endless 

 prospect of ridge and gorge, arranged one behind the other, lead 

 up in the far distance to the Nanga Parbat group of snowy peaks in 

 Kashmir, and according to the season are either clothed in limpid 

 sunlight and purple of the deepest hue, or grey and storm-strewn, 

 as mist and cloud in advancing hosts drop fatness among the 

 valleys and dredge white with snow the bare summits and higher 

 crests. 



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