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frequent masses of horizontally deposited shingle, mostly granitic, 

 or of the above rocks. Further down, the upper strata appear gene- 

 rally the grey contorted and waved slaty, overlying and hardly 

 conformable with the thinner bedded blue slaty rocks. 



" lOth. — We left the road by which we carne up, and diverged 

 to the northward some five miles. The strata mostly of the thick 

 bedded grey slaty rocks, cortorted, and at varying angles, and dip 

 generally not far from horizontal. 



" Here we were within a mile of another central cluster of their 

 villages called Makin and the nearest point to which we got to the 

 central mass of this range of hills called Pirghar or Ghal, points of 

 which towered some 2000 to 4000 feet above us. Where the stra- 

 tification can be seen, as in the nearer masses, it appears nearly ver- 

 tical and bent. 



" On the llth with one of the covering parties of a burning ex- 

 pedition to these villages, I got on a ridge somewhat nearer to 

 Pirghar. The surface of this ridge is mostly composed of shingle, 

 granitic, and very rarely slaty grey rock visible in sitio nearly ver- 

 tical. 



" On the 12th a march of eight miles, still northerly, up a bank 

 bed, and camp at about 7300 feet ; the highest camp we had. Just 

 on reaching camp passed a number of strata of the alga?, marked, 

 thin, bluish, hard, shaly strata overlying beds of the thick, vitrified 

 looking rock. I mentioned before, both at a high angle dipping to 

 the west. The general disposition of the grey slaty rock we saw is, 

 however, nearly horizontal, with a slight dip to east. Most of the 

 valley in which we progressed was a mile wide, and occasionally more, 

 filled up by horizontally disposed shingle beds, our road being up the 

 bed which the stream has cut through these. 



" 14th. — Marched five miles still to northward. For 1^ miles 

 we rise, then down a steep rocky ravine ; rocks mostly shaly, and 

 the vitrified looking varieties generally at high angles, dip to east ; 

 some of the strata occasionally much contorted. 



" For days, evidences of the Iron manufacture for which Kanee- 

 gorm has long been famous had been visible, such as furnaces and 

 slag, &c, with occasionally, in villages, stores of iron stone. None 

 of the latter, however, did I happen to see. Here 1 thought we 



