. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. station the Nila Roh turns to the north-west at ario-ht angle, and passing off through the low Bhattani ridge unites with thetrans-frontier border hills of the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan northern ranges in the Kalabagh region j!have elevations up to3,900 and 4,700 feet above the sea, according toGovernment maps; the cliffs of Dangot risesheer 2,070 feet from the Indus, and there are many other lofty preci-pices among the Lakargarh and Shingarh mountains, as well as along thesouthern escarpment of the Chichali range. The highest summit
. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. station the Nila Roh turns to the north-west at ario-ht angle, and passing off through the low Bhattani ridge unites with thetrans-frontier border hills of the Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan northern ranges in the Kalabagh region j!have elevations up to3,900 and 4,700 feet above the sea, according toGovernment maps; the cliffs of Dangot risesheer 2,070 feet from the Indus, and there are many other lofty preci-pices among the Lakargarh and Shingarh mountains, as well as along thesouthern escarpment of the Chichali range. The highest summit ofthe Maidan scarp is over 4,200 feet, while the Indus, east of the inter- i Surgarh, from sur, red, and garh, mountain. 2 The Shingarh is also called the Lowagarh range; shin in Pashtu means green. 3 Nila, blue ; roh, mountain. 4 Mowrut of the inhabitants; name of a tribe. 5 Ratta, red, roh, mountain; a misnomer for these hills. 6 Kiri, a tent or hut encampment of the wandering tribes, who live chiefly on milk,which is called Jcir. ( 220 ). PHYSICAL FEATUKES. 11 vening Isa Khel plain, has a level of 700 feet at Kalabagh, declining to 650 opposite the Khasor range. This last-named range is about 3,000 feet above the sea at its northern end, rising nearly a thousand feet higher to the southward before it terminates. The Mia Roh maintains a very regular height of nearly S,000 feet, for most of its length, until it reaches Shekh Budin, where the massive clump of Makdum Grind,1 with two conspicuous parallel east and west lobes, rises suddenly to 4,516 feet,3 far overtopping all the local elevations, though of less height than the Prangzai Sir (4,797 feet) of the Lakargarh Khatak mountains, north-westward from Kalabagh, To the north and north-west of this crooked and broken system of ranges lie the Kohat salt field and the open plainSurrounding regions. r of the Bannu valley; to the east or south-east are the plain of Isa Khel and the river Indus, and to the south thesandy plains of
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