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clearing. In the thick leafy undergrowth through which we pass we 

 may notice the many-coloured balsams, wild strawberries and raspber- 

 ries covering the slopes, maiden-hair fern nestling among the lime 

 stone crannies, primulas, wild geranium, buttercups, daisies, sorrel, 

 dock, larkspur, and the strange cobra-plant. 



Between the west-north-west spur of Moorchpoori and the N.E. 

 spur of the same which goes to Bukot, there are steep slopes and glens 

 full of forest except along the great water and snow slides. The out- 

 crops of the strata cannot be well seen along these slopes, and but an 

 imperfect notion of the rocks can begot by taking the road to Bukot 

 or Kohala from Nathia Gulee which follows below these slopes by the 

 side of the Bukot stream. The great fault takes a line now on one side 

 and now on the other of the stream-bed as far as a point 1 £ miles west- 

 south-west of Bukot village, when it turns gradually away towards 

 the north-east, north-north-east and north. Before this happens, 

 however, there are imperfect exposures on the road of the Spiti shales 

 and Gieumal sandstone, outcropping E. and W. and cutting the N.E. 

 ridge from Moorchpoori by some fields at Khun Khoord (according to 

 observations by Hira Lai), after which the outcrops turn south along 

 the eastern face of Moorchpoori. The north-eastern continuation of 

 this zone consists now entirely of Trias limestone following below the 

 jurassics, and travelling as a narrow tongue from k to £ mile wide 

 with a north-and-south outcrop as far as the junction of the Jhelum 

 and Koonhar, after which it passes out of the district. This great turn 

 in the strike and direction of the disturbance zone boundaries from 

 east-north-east to due north will be found to be a general feature 

 as the Jhelum valley is approached. 



To the south-west of the road from Kalabagh to Doonga Gulee, 

 Section below Milach. s *eep spurs and slopes descend to the stream 

 below Milach, and here we must notice the 

 appearance of ne prominent outlier of the Kuldana beds and of two 

 or three thinn r bands of the same rock on the slopes a little south of 

 Kalabagh. O - account of the bright purple colour of the associated 

 gypsiferous shales and clays, these beds may be easily recognised 



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