arise from exposure to the weather.  In these places they look much like sandstone, the fragments at the base of the cliffs are clayey, 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 degrees.  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 ravines 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 Boragineae, 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 improves towards Dadur, topes becoming more frequent.  Salsola lanata abundant:  a good deal of cultivation occurs along the river.

10th.—­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 Cannabis occur.  These, as well as the fields, are protected with loose Bheir fences.  There are a few small villages around, all of the same kucha or temporary construction, together with some remains of cotton, which in these parts is perennial.