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west of Jelalpoor the sandstones disappear and no miocene strata 

 are again seen on the south side of the range east of the Indus. 



Proceeding westward from Jhelum along the Peshawur road, the 

 miocene strata appear about four miles from Bhotas, rising out of 

 the plain at a high angle, with a dip to the east and form the Ehotas 

 range, which from the right bank of the Jhelum stretches south-west 

 to Mount Tillah. By the upheaval however of the older strata of 

 that mountain, an extensive fault has been produced by which the 

 tertiaries in the immediate neighbourhood of its southern escarpment 

 have been made to dip north, and, as it were, under the Devonian 

 strata. Between Bhotas and Tillah the miocene beds are elevated into 

 an anticlinal ridge, on the north side of which the strata dip westward 

 towards Bukrala, where they are elevated into another parallel range 

 to that of Bhotas. Beyond this they extend uninterruptedly to 

 Bawul Pindee, presenting a series of anticlinal and synclinal axis. 



Prom the Tillah and Bakrala ranges the miocene strata extend 

 along the north side of the Salt Bange, elevated into scarped ridges 

 with a dip at a considerable angle to the north, which gradually 

 diminishes as we recede from the Bange. 



In its central part where the nummulite limestone strata are in 

 many places in a nearly horizontal position, patches of miocene sand- 

 stones, &c. occur, but from the facility with which they decompose, 

 are rapidly undergoing disintegration on the surface of the limestone. 

 Along the north side of mount Sekesur and on to the Indus, the 

 tertiaries are elevated along with the inferior rocks, and at Nummul 

 above Moosakhail may be seen dipping conformably with them (as 

 is the case everywhere else) at an angle of from 50° to 60° . 



Above Maree on the Indus they form barren hills of considerable 

 height, which extend along the river up to Mokhudd, a distance of 

 about sixteen miles. On its right bank they attain a greater height, 

 and the summit of the well known scarped precipice of Dingkote, 

 about two miles above Maree at the foot of which the Indus flows, 

 is, as ascertained by the Thermometer, 2,113 feet. Above the Indus 

 at Maree, looking north from its summit ; the horizontal ridges of 

 miocene strata can be seen as far as the eye can reach, crossing the 

 Indus from N. N. W. to S. S. E. with a dip to E. N. E. At Maree 

 the angle of dip is 35°, but this diminishes as we ascend the Indus. 



