On the Lacustrine or Karéwah Deposits of Kashmere

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T here is a point of geological interest at a place called Kuttai (on the River Jhelum, going up to Baramula), where the surface is covered with enormous granite-boulders. At a march and a half (22 miles) further on, they occur again, at a place called Oorie, and extend up the valley, past a place called Gingle, about 12 miles. Vigne notices this place (Oorie) in his ‘Travels’†. The hills at Kuttai are of limestone, and at Gingle of a basaltic rock. Mr. Vigne says,—“I know of no granite in Kashmere except in Hara-mook, but not in situ . Hara-mook rises opposite the entrance to the Baramula Passi‡; and the same medium must have floated or forced the granite of Deotsuh to either place from the northward.” This passage in Mr. Vigne’s work has given rise to the notion that glaciers from Hara-mook once extended across the valley of Kashmere. If this had been the case, it seems to me that some few blocks or boulders would be found scattered across the valley, and left at various heights on the slopes above the river (Jhelum). Such, however, is not the case: the granite-blocks on the surface at Kuttai, Oorie, and Gingle are never higher than the level of the “alluvial” plain; and these are found through the whole thickness of the alluvium from top to bottom ; as may be seen in the sections, when the nullahs cut through it. The following plans and sketches (figs. 1, 2, and 3), taken along

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