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Brahmans was fathomless, we found by plumbing it by the aid of a 

 long jungle creeper charged with a heavy stone to be only thirteen 

 feet deep. The falsehood of these men is only to be equalled by their 

 impudence, for they declared we never reached the bottom. 



A few hundred yards from this pool and down the stream the 

 asbestos changes into actinolite where it is seen in columnar masses 

 from ten to fifteen feet in height, and when decayed is of a bright 

 yellow, red and bluish colour ; the living rock is of a pale emerald 

 green with glassy fibres ; this mineral is also found in the bed of the 

 Anjun nullah where the stream leaves the high land through a narrow 

 gap in the hills named the " Kookur Jhup or the Hound's leap." 



6tk September, 1847.— Left Bheembandh early this morning ; leav- 

 ing the hot wells on our left, we struck into a valley flanked on the 

 right by the Ghordour hill and on the left by the Gorya hill, both of 

 hornstone, and well wooded ; at one mile ascended the Kohburrun 

 hornstone hill to the crest of a deep and beautifully wooded dell 

 named Narookole ; from the summit of the pass the view was particu- 

 larly pleasing, though nothing but dense forest and hills meet the view ; 

 descended the Narookole path down to a grass-clad valley through 

 which the Sundasin nullah finds its way to the plains of Kurrukpoor. 

 After a very wet walk in the tall grass between the Keel Tokwa hill on 

 the right hand, and Sundasin hill on the left, and after crossing and 

 recrossing the stream numerous times, we were fairly brought to a stand 

 still by our guides pointing to a nearly perpendicular mountain over 

 which they told us we must climb. We tried many points to endeavour 

 to find a passage for a couple of ponies that were with us, but without 

 success ; they were obliged to retrace their steps and to go round 

 several miles to the Suwasin pass over which they eventually made 

 their way. As we mounted the steep Keel Tokwa, we perceived that 

 the Sundasin nullah flowed several hundred feet below us in deep 

 shade through a gap in the hills for nearly half a mile in length, the 

 sides of which were quite perpendicular, and not more than a few 

 hundred yards apart ; the gap has the appearance of being a volcanic 

 rent in the white hornstone rocks which are prettily fringed with 

 Sterculia, Boswellia and Butea ; from the highest point in our passage 

 over the Keel Tokwa we had a capital view of the greater part of the 

 jungles to the West. 



