1 AgrmoLl HILLS SA8T OP THE. ISDUE* 045
2 south -east 80°. TWs point appears about the lowest. To tlic east and north
3 they increase in height, and appear steep and ru^ed ; tliey joiu tlie setioud
4 range of hUls south o£ HmginaJbdal, and fiwn- tiwnce ran mtgt iawnda
5 Nihil. Th^ are covered ivith s loir Imaty jan^e. I weut up those to
6 the east of the Tpm, and found them very rod^ and difficult, and this ap.
7 poaied the eaaicat point Hie irholo ni the covabj between the ranges, is
8 excessively uneven, witli rising ground, in many places much cnt by torrent
9 coui-ties, and quantities of jungle, and deep ravines ; in most places the soil
10 sandy, and a quantity oi luutie iitones o\ex the surlace. Tliere are some rich
11 plains, which produce grain in great abondanoe^ - but even they ate mndi
12 out in aaxiy places by tonent oouraei finm tlut hillB.;
13 • He eecond kange waa flie Nedrliflb, tsieoty^ve ntileB north north*«att
14 t£ Jellalpore Ghat, on the Jelum. The pass through this range was very
15 ffifficnll, and abov e five miles througli, it winding along the bed of a nullah,
16 or tnrrtnit course, with high peq>cndicnlar rocks in many places on each side
17 close j a fort on the south side ol' the pass built by Outum Sing, about halt'
18 w^.tittough,, cinnmanda and datiea aeBcaUectad fioaa mtrdhaiitB^ "{ThSl
19 paaa ia bjr natom Teiy atfoag^ and m^itiie easily guarcMt and.FsmtoUkit
20 ii « better road than tha '^i^s one^ which leads direct ftcni JELctasgur to
21 Ravilpindee. Fourteen miles south south-east of this pass, we passed the
22 sontli'West point of the Tilla hills, which run to Rotasgtir. The rotid round
23 their puiut wm along the bi il oi a torrent with high and rugged banks, and
24 broken ground to the right, wliich extends to the Salt ridge, distant six or
25 seven milea. After passing the TUla hills, a deep groupe of lower hilli» equil
26 to the Salt fidge» commences* and ^dends to tiie banks of the Jelum, having
27 them at the distance of one mile and a half to the left of the lOad. A mile
28 above Jelalpore Ghat, the Salt ridge meets the one in a curve, and the road
29 leads out of the valley between them down a steep and nigged bank to the
30 Ghat, the latter jjart being along the bed of a torrent* which carries off the
31 water from the valley we Itave just left.
32 AH these fangea join the de^ groupe of hilla to the north-east^ bat none
33 often cross tiie Jduaa.bdvwthe.toiwn of Jdum. Hie deqi groupes
34 do, however, cross there, and nin on by Bimber, Jomboo Nurpoor, and
35 down by the- soutli of Bil^ispoor, crossing the Jumna at Fyzabad, and the
36 Ganges at Hurdwar. The whole course from Jelum, is as near sOuth-east as
37 possible. They increase in heigivi gradually to the snowy ridge north, and
38 i^ipear to form regular ranges nmoii^ parallel to each other ( but they ar^
39 in^fiMt* deep groupes inoiwidng ia hei^ m they rim nocth-eHtM '.j'' '
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