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Mr. Verchere on the Geology of Kashmir, 



[No. 2, 



WNW 



about 5100 ft. 

 above sea level. 



F £ D -•" c B 1- — 



A. Dark grey felstone, slaty, stratified and with a cleavage and 



joints. Fusiform, elongated, minute granules of augite. Many 

 thin-bedded strata, about 400 feet. 



B. Felstone like A, interbedded with strata of felspathic ash 



containing nodules of augite, 30 „ 



0. Rough trachytic clinkstone or felstone, breaking in elongated 



slabs terminated by oblique, clean joints generally lined with 

 quartzite, 500 „ 



D. Bluish grey felspathic paste with innumerable penicilli of 



white powdery albite, 500 „ 



E. Pale grey felspathic paste with almond-shaped masses of 



albite, either powdery or compact and saccharine. Beds of 



ash interstratified, 400 „ 



F. A succession of beds similar to D. and E. interstratified with bands of 



amygdaloid and of felspathose ash containing oval nodules of augite. 

 This rock appears to form the whole of the Shunialarum, and was seen, 

 as far as I could see, towards the west. 



G. Shumalurum, 8467 ft. 

 H. River Jheelum or Vedusta. 



1. Baramoola. 



J. The dotted line is the Atala. 

 K. Lacustrine Clay and Boulders. 



5. The rocks, which I have endeavoured to describe, are continued 

 along both banks of the Jheelum as for as the fort of Ori, about twenty • 

 five miles south of Baramoola. Following them on the left bank, 

 (Murree Road) we first cross the Atala, and can observe, near 

 the village of Mihrur, very fine narrow slabs of felstone, twelve feet 

 long, used as rafters to support a roof over a holy well or spring. 

 Proceeding S. W. we cross a small marshy valley, and near the 

 village of Grhaut Mullah we meet a succession of spurs directed 

 towards the N. W., and which are the extreme north-western 

 extension of the Pir Punjal Chain. These spurs are also made up 

 completely of felspathic flagstone, identical to that which I have 

 described above, but the dip and strike of the beds are different 

 from that of the beds near Baramoola : the dip is W. with a 



