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INDIA

the bed of the Draband torrent
sooo feet below), the chilghesa
‘edible pine) grows. The
sastern and western ridges are
connected at one point by the
plain which is rifted by these
gullies to the north and south,
ind which is besprinkled with
huge masses of displaced limestone,
 but easily traversable.
From the summit of the Kaisargarh,
 looking beyond the
scarred cliffs of coral limestone
which form the eastern ridge
of the mountain, and over a
secondary range of distorted
and twisted nummulitic rock,
the long flat edges of a whole
series of ridges, narrow backed
and serrated, with scarped sides
facing west and long flat spurs
sloping east towards the Indus
plains, tier after tier, and range
upon range, bleak, barren, and
desolate, form a ‘middle distance,”
 whose enchantment is
of a most weird and fantastic
character. Far away the faint
blue meeting of earth and sky
's marked by the dim black
aorizontal line of the Indus
ringe of trees. Here and
there the band of serrated
ridges (of which the axis is
aearly north and south, parallel
to the axis of the great central
upheaval of the Takht-i-Suliman
Mountain) is broken across by
the drainage from the Baluch