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common Icankar is very prevalent, either intermixed with the alluvium, 

 or in beds, as in the channel, and on the banks of the Bailan nadi at 

 Baronda, where it appears to be indistinctly stratified — and contains 

 fragments of sand-stone : this part of the range is not rich either in mine- 

 rals or metals ; but another portion of it, near Pannah, is remarkable for 

 containing diamonds, and still further west, are the extensive iron mines 

 of Katola. 



I ascended the second range of hills at the pass of Kattra, and found 

 near the top of it a stratum of red and bluish green slaty marie interstra- 

 tified with sand-stone, in thin laminae, and surmounted at the top by va- 

 riegated sand-stone; these beds resembled the red marie of England, and 

 in furtherance of the conjecture that they may be so identified — I will 

 add that salt is manufactured in the village of Kattra. The slaty marie 

 rested upon massive beds horizontally stratified, resembling, as far as I 

 can judge from description. Dr. Macculloch's lowest sand-stone, 2d Div. 

 F. the upper part of which was schistose, containing a little mica and 

 tinged slightly green, but the lower part was massive, and coloured by 

 the brown oxide of iron. 



The summit of the second range is a platform, like the former, vary- 

 ing only from a perfect level by the same description of undulation which 

 I have described above ; like the former also it increases in elevation to- 

 wards the south-west, and in order to examine its composition, I visited 

 all the water-falls between the Kattra pass, and the Tons river. 



The first of these cataracts is near the village of JBilohi, about twelve 

 miles west of the pass of Kattra, the fall of water is three hundred and 

 ninety-eight feet, and the escarpment is nearly perpendicular, the lowest 

 bed is a thin stratum of fine argillaceous sand-stone tinged deeply by 



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