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minent rocks are the talcose quartz-schists; but, beyond the ordinary break¬ 
fasting place, the name of which I have forgotten, highly garnetiferous micaceous 
schists are common, and garnets may be picked up in hundreds in little depres¬ 
sions and amongst the roots of trees and shrubs. 
We halted one day at Miinshiari, in order to pay a visit to the localities 
whence are obtained the ovoid stalactites, sold as curiosities to travellers by the 
people of Miinshiari. The g^ide took me down to the G-oii river, and pointed 
to places in the cliffs forming the banks, and said they were found there; but I 
failed to procure any, and I question very much whether I was shown the right 
spots. 
In the neighbourhood of Miinshiari we began to notice a change in the 
character of the rocks; and on our next march to Lelam we 
saw some typical gneiss between Dalkdt and Tala Di'imar; 
dip north, at 25°. Opposite Tala Diimar black mica- 
schists, in some instances highly garnetiferous, and horn¬ 
blende schists occur above the gneiss. 
From Lelam we marched to Bdghdiiar, and thence to Eilkot. The road 
keeps in the valley of the Gdriganga, and a magnificent 
section is exposed of what Dr. Stoliezka terms his central 
gneiss.^ It is traversed by granite veins, in the manner 
Change in 
rocks. 
L^lam. 
character of 
Baghd6arj Rilk6t. 
Central gneiss. 
described by him. 
Still keeping to the valley of the Gdriganga, our next halting-place was 
Biirfii, where we were forced to remain several days until 
jjiirfu, , 
a sufficient number of jabbiis (half-bred yaks) had been 
collected to carry our camp stoi-es and equipage. Burfii is beyond the ground of 
the central gneiss, and the rocks between it and Rilkdt are quartzites, slates, 
and schists. Near Tola I noticed an immense number of crystals of iron pyrites 
in almost all the beds that I examined. 
Our first discovery of a fossil was beyond the village of Milam, near Shilong, 
one of the halting-places of the Bhotias, in some fine 
silicious sandstone. I think that the Stropliornena aranca, 
Salter, which is the only silurian form in our collection, is 
the specimen referred to ; but I am not quite sure, the label having been lost. 
Along the remainder of our route to the snowy passes, and especially at the foot 
of tinta Dhiira, we made several additions to our bag of fossils; and each 
day’s journey to the frontier, and through Tibet, enabled us to increase our 
stock. 
Dr. Waagen says of our collection : 
“ The fossils brought by Mr. Hughes from the Milam pass can be attributed 
to at least five formations, which are indicated with more or less certainty by 
^ ^ the different species. I consider as very probably of creta- 
ceous age some pieces of a flaggy yellowish grey lime¬ 
stone, filled with fragments of shells intermixed with entire specimens, which, 
* Memoirs, Geol. Surv., India, 1866, vol. V, page 12. 
