1 PUNJAB. 119
2 made this an interesting neighbourhood.” About the town of
3 Mundi, near the eastern frontier, and on the upper course of the
4 Beas, in the most southern and lower ranges of the Himalaya, is
5 an extensive tract of rocks and deposits, of recent formation,® of » sncquemont, v.
6 limestone, sandstone, gypsum, argillaceous slate, amidst which 5!®-
7 veins of quartz occasionally occur. This formation is important,
8 in consequence of containing inexhaustible beds of fossil salt,*
9 very compact and heavy, and of a reddish colour. On the west of
10 the Punjab, and crossing the Doab, between the Jailum and the
11 Indus, is the Salt range, which is cross-cut by the channel of the
12 Indus, and which, to the north of the Daman, on the western
13 side of that river, joins the Suliman and Khyber ranges. The
14 Salt range,! sometimes (on the west of the Indus) called the ! rtpn. ace. ot
15 Kalabagh range, holds a direction a little south of east, between ete a ee
16 lat. 32° 30'—33°, and terminates rather abruptly on the right Bumes’ Pers
17 bank of the river Jailum.? The elevction is not. great, probably ? Jacquem. v. 109.
18 in few places exceeding 2,000 % feet above the sea, ‘The forma- aa Bokh. i
19 tions4 composing it are grauwacke, limestone, sandstone, gyp- 4 Jacquem. v. 100-
20 sum, and red tenacious clay, investing enormous deposits of 163 Burnes, tb.
21 common salt, or chloride of sodium. (See Sarr Rance and
22 Pinp Davun Kuay.) 5 A ae Kashmir,
23 Altogether, the ascertained mineral wealth of the Punjab es ‘As. Sac.
24 vs
25 and its dependencies appears scanty in proportion to the Waiaee ?
26 great extent of its mountains. Gold is found in the sands yee uni
27 of the streams of Bulti> and Ladakh,® aleo in those of the pokn. 1,313;
28 Chenaub,’ the Huroo, and the Swan. Kashmir yields copper, (4 ier aa
29 lead, and iron.8 Graphite or plumbago abounds in the Pir Panjal, p. 52.
30 7 Burnes’ Bokh,
31 bounding Kashmir on the south-west.? Iron is also raised in j, go; ij. 401.
32 Mundi,! as well as common salt. The Salt range, besides the {, ene ot
33 mineral from which it is named, produces antimony, alum, and Moorer. li. 162.
34 1
35 sulphur. Nitre? is obtained in abundance from the alluvial plains. ,, ae
36 Coal? exists about the Salt range at Mukkud, on the left Roce dat,
37 bank of the Indus, and in the localities of Joa, Meealee, and ti 402,
38 N ul.4 3 Burnes, Rep. on
39 ummul."t Coal, 79.
40 4 Wood, Rep. on
41 * Moorcroft! states that the salt of this tract is found in grauwacke : the ee oe
42 occurrence of this rock is not mentioned by Jacquemont.? ee acai
43 159.
44 + Dr. Jameson,' an agent of the Anglo-Indian government, despatched 2 voynge, v. 818,
45 to obtain information respecting the coal measures which Wood and Burnes 3!9-
46 Jour. As. Soc.
47 reported they had examined in the Salt range, stated his opinion as fol- gong. 1942, p. 2
48 lows :—‘' To the question, Is any good coal to be found in quantity in this