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2 ral sulphur, rock-salt, gypsum, brown and red iron-ore, and alum-
3 slate. The lower beds contain no organic remains, but the upper * Jour. As. Soe.
4 abound in them. The iron-ore is a red or brown hematite, so tea
5 rich that in many places the needle of the compass becomes
6 quite useless, even at a considerable distance from the rocks,
7 owing to their’being highly magnetic, from the quantity of iron
8 which they contain. The sandstone abounds with the exuvie of
9 enormous animals, either saurians or sauroid fishes. Most of the
10 torrents of the Salt range carry down gold dust in their sands,
11 which are washed, in search of the precious deposit, in numerous
12 places, throughout the greater part of the year. The hills at ‘ Jameson, 212.
13 Kala Bagh contain great quantities of aluminous slate, from which
14 alum is obtained at various manufactories at that town. The
15 slate, well sprinkled with water, is laid in alternate strata with
16 wood, until the pile reaches a height of from twetity-five to thirty
17 feet; it is then lighted, and the combustion continued for about
18 twelve hours, in which time the colour of the slate is converted
19 from greyish black to dark red. This change of colour indicating
20 that the process has been carried to a sufficient extent, the mass
21 is thrown into a tank holding as much water as it is computed
22 the alum is competent to saturate. After three days, the water,
23 which becomes of a dark red colour, is drawn off, mixed with a
24 due proportion of potash, and boiled down, the residuum on
25 cooling becoming a solid mass of alum. It is sold at the rate of
26 12. 19s.* for six maunds> (= 384 Ibs.). Dr. Jameson expatiates ta rb
27 with the earnestness of sanguine excitement on the mineral ies2, p. 2
28 wealth of the Salt range, concluding in these terms :——‘‘ Such is
29 § rapid account of the riches of this district, and there are few,
30 if any, districts in the world where iron, gold, sulphur, salt,
31 &ypsum, limestone, saltpetre, and coal + axe met with in such
32 quantity.”
33 SANDWALLE, in Afghanistan, a halting-place on the Boree E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
34 or Mohavee route from Kandahar to Dera Ghazee Khan, and
35 fifty miles west of the latter town. Lat. 30° 52’, long. 69° 8’.
36 SANGAD, or BUZDAR PASS, in Afghanistan, across the guar a
37 * This appears a very high price. Mohun Lal states it at only a fourth Jour. As. Soc.
38 ofa Tupee per maund, which, on the other hand, is incredibly small. eric %6,
39 t It is, perhaps, needless to observe, that this statement respecting coal Bagh.
40 is at variance with the opinions expressed by Dr. Jameson in other places on
41 the same subject.