1 ( M0)
2 have also been discovered. Antimony was discovered in 1854 by Cap-
3 tain Hay in the high range between Kooloo and Ladakh. The search
4 for borax, alluded to in para. 468 of the Second Punjab Report, was
5 subsequently made by the Geological Surveyor, and proved successful.
6 This article could satisfactorily be produced in the Pangah valley, but
7 with this, as with so many other articles, the chief difficulty relates to
8 transit, as the place of production is situated on the head of the Hima-
9 layan Mountains. A reference on the subject has been made to the
10 mercantile firm in England interested in the use of borax.
11 SurvEYs.
12 201. The Revenue Survey was described in para. 351 of the Second
13 Punjab Report. Up to that date (May 1854)
14 about half, and that the richegt half, of these
15 Territories had been surveyed; subsequently great and rapid progress
16 has been effected during the last two years. There now only remain
17 for this Survey the lower extremity of the country near Mooltan and
18 the lower half of the Doab between the Jhelum and the Indus. These
19 portions will be completed in about three years. Of the three Surveying
20 Establishments, one has recently been transferred to Sindh, two being
21 sufficient for what remains to be done in the Punjab. The area surveyed
22 within the past two years has amounted to square miles 17,935, and the
23 cost to Rupees 3,04,667 or £30,466, being at the rate of Rupees 16-15-1
24 or £1-13-104 per square mile. This rate is exceedingly low; but the
25 bare and barren nature of the country recently surveyed, enables the
26 Surveyor to work cheaply and quickly. The department has fully.
27 sustained its reputation for accuracy and efficiency, and the work is of
28 excellent quality. This Survey, though undertaken primarily for fiscal
29 uses, yet most fully subserves all topographical purposes, as it minutely
30 delineates all features on the ground, whether of cultivation or of waste.
31 The only tracts in the Punjab excepted from this operation are the
32 upper and rugged portion of the Doab between the Jhelum and Indus
33 Rivers and the Mountainous Huzara, both of which have been topo-
34 graphically surveyed in first-rate style by Lieutenant Robinson, of
35 Engineers, in subordination to the Surveyor General. For the Trans-.
36 Indus Frontier, there will not be a Revenue Survey; but for the
37 Revenue Survey.