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and lime crystals of sorts abound. The country is fairly wooded with 
junipers, conifers andbér trees: about the Ush pass it is fairly open; 
about Ispira RAgha wild and hilly. 
Topobargh Pass ; Momand.—Country same as about Ispira Ragha. 
Momand is an open upland hilly plateau. 
Nangalina Pass and Plateau.—Country about the Pass is hilly, 
broken and rocky (gneiss), After the Pass the plateau is reached. It is of 
considerable width, but itis intersected by curious low flat-topped hills 
running north to south. It is wooded, as before, in the upper heights, but 
is bare of trees below 8000 feet. The hills appear to be composed of clays 
and sandstones of sorts with schist and gneiss cropping up in places, 
Khwdra.— After Khwara limestones begin to predominate and fossils, 
especially testacean, to abound. 
Chimjan.—The country is waterscoured, stony and treeless. 
Mt. Syajgai.— Mt. Syajgai is a curious isolated mountain in the middle 
of the Shor valley. It rises about 1000 feet above the valley and almost 
perpendicularly for the last 300 feet. It is flat-topped, measuring at top 
about 2 miles in length by about $ mile in breadth. It is of limestone 
and full of fossils even at the summit. Fossils abound also about Chimjin. 
RR. Zaghlun to Pélkai Pass——The country is here remarkable for 
five almost parallel lines of hills about one mile to 1} miles apart enclosing 
hilly valleys. After these the country to the north is mountainous as far 
as the Zhdb valley, 12 miles. The hills appear to be of limestone with 
trap in the gorges. The strata are very much broken and faulty. 
Shér Valley.—Country much water-worn and very stony. The valley 
is about 20 miles long and about 5 to 15 miles broad. 
Mzarai Vailley.—The country much as before, but cut into by deep 
nullah beds. 
Baidnai Pass.—Hills of soft white limestone. Country wild and 
rugged, much cut into by nullahs which are full of limestone chips 
from the hills, white, greenish and reddish. 
Ghazgai Valley.—Valley 15 miles long by about 5 broad. Country 
as before, but more grass and overgrowths. Soil, richer than heretofore. 
Hills of limestone with very folded strata. 
Borat Valley.—This valley is, say, 40 miles long and from 8 to 15 
miles broad. The soil is good and fertile; there isno water-scour except 
about the streams; putt andkunker are found in the lower lands. Hills 
of limestone with very broken strata. 
Hanumbér Pass.—Country en route various; putt and rough stony 
water-worn places, especially about the rivers, of which 4 or 5 meet in the 
Pass, which appears to be the only outlet southwards for some distance 
