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Eutteepore, South west of Sultanpore, facing the village of Quageah, 

 and the road from Kooloo to Simla. The mountain containing this 

 mine, is called by the natives, Jilly Pronally. It belongs to the 

 chain extending from East to "West, and is bounded at its summit, 

 by a table-land adjoining the mines and the possessions of Mundee. 

 It is a large ravine serving as a pass, leading to the villages of the 

 table-land, and owing most likely, its enlargement to the erosion 

 of pluvial waters. The rock in which the grains of magnetic oxide 

 of iron are embedded is a mica schist of the same nature as the 

 mines already described in my first reports. 



It is to be remarked that the blackest lines of stratification, that 

 is to say, those containing the grains of oxide of iron, generally con- 

 tain less mica, than those of a lighter colour, and that the rock 

 passes as it were to the grey wacke. To the left, on ascending this 

 ferruginous ravine, the mica schist which borders it, contains no iron. 



It would appear that the mineral extends under the table-land, in 

 a line perpendicular to the mountain, inclining however to the right, 

 the only part exposed at about thirty feet from the summit, seems 

 to run in that direction. The existence of this mine was completely 

 unknown to Europeans, though worked by the Natives of the neighs 

 bouring villages for a length of time. Though the country is well 

 wooded, this work is limited to four small furnaces, similar to those 

 of Mundee and elsewhere. This mine, in its physical character, as 

 well as in its composition, exactly resembles all the magnetic iron 

 mines described in my former reports; it contains from 10 to 15 

 per cent, of magnetic oxide of iron. In its natural state this mine 

 is poor, but the ease with which the oxide of iron can be separated 

 from the rock, places it in the same category as the mine I have 

 already described. 



The oligist iron mine is situated in a mountain of quartz border- 

 ing the left side of the torrent Parbutty, facing the thermal springs, 

 but on the Southern slope opposite the Mannikurn valley. Owing 

 to the impossibility of reaching the mine from this side, on account 

 of the steepness of the mountain, Captain Hay, myself and the 

 guide, retraced our steps to the village of Deah, picturesquely situ- 

 ated on the summit of a mountain facing Bijowrah. We started 

 thence to make a fresh excursion, but on arriving at a certain 



