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mixed with brown angular masses, occasionally shingle, and indeed, 

 a low ridge near the north side of the range is chiefly of shingle. 

 The direction is NNE., the angle of inclination of the slopes say 

 30°. The hills are highest towards the centre, and here some of 

 the strata are curved. 



The plain between this and the main range is much broken by ra- 

 vines caused by rain ; it is thinly covered with Kureel, Salsola robusta, 

 Chenopodium, etc. The vegetation along the river is the same as at 

 Mysoor. Durand finds nummulites, but thinks them brought down 

 by the river. The strata or rather debris of slips often intersected by 

 nearly erect projecting lines of a fibrous dyke. There is some wheat 

 cultivation in the fields, a new Plantago, a Ruta, Silenacea, a curious 

 Composita, two Boraginese, Phalaris, Phleum, Avena, two or three 

 Crucifera, Trigonella, and Melilotus are to be found. The vegetation 

 elsewhere is much the same, Rairoo, Kureel, Ukko, Chenopodium, 

 Lycium albidum re-occurs. 



7th. — Proceeded to Dadur, a distance of seven and a half miles, 

 nearly north. The country is a good deal cut up by water : 

 within two and a half miles of Dadur we crossed the Naree, a running 

 stream, with small boulders, and high clayey banks. The country im- 

 proves towards Dadur, topes becoming more frequent. Salsola lanata 

 abundant : a good deal of cultivation occurs along the river. 



10M. — Dadur is a good sized, and more orderly looking place 

 than Bagh, and is ornamented with well wooded gardens, among 

 which the Khujoor holds a conspicuous place. An elegant and large 

 Bheir and a Mimosa, are two other trees of the place ; it is situated on 

 the left bank of the Bolan river. The bed of this river until the Levee 

 bund was cut, had been dry, but there is now plenty of water in 

 it. It is in some places much choked by bulrushes, etc., it is 

 eighty yards broad, and is shingly. Dadur stands nearly on the end of 

 a good sized plain, surrounded on all sides by hills, of which those 

 traversed to Nowshera, run NNE. and are lowest. The main range is 

 four or five miles off. The greater part of this plain is uncultivated and 

 covered with Rairoo, Kureel, Joussa, Sal. lanata, and Chenopodium ; 

 but along the sides of the river, as well as near that crossed en route 

 to this place from Nowshera, there is a highly luxuriant cultivation of 

 wheat, bearded and beardless, and barley. In some places near the 

 town, are rich gardens of sonff, coriander, Mola, cress, onions, 

 carrots, beet, among which a few poppies and Canabis occur. These, 

 as well as the fields, are protected with loose Bheir fences. There 



