ASIA. 143 



AVtnne, A. B. Geology of the neighbourhood of Man, Punjab. Eec. 

 Geol. Surv. Ind. vol. vii. pt. 2, pp. 64-74, map and plate. 



West of the Jhilam river the strike of the rocks forming the Outer 

 Himalayas is no longer north-westerly, as it is further east, but varies 

 from west to north. At Mari the rocks are of grey sandstone and 

 purpKsh clay, more than 5000 feet thick ; these pass up into soft light- 

 grey sandstones alternating with rusty orange clays, which again are 

 succeeded by conglomerates. Inwards the rocks dip north-westerly, 

 and appear to go under rocks which are relatively older, and of which 

 a considerable proportion is limestone. These older rocks are of Num- 

 mulitic, Jurassic, and Triassic age. The structure is greatly confused 

 by contortion, inversion, and faulting. Details of several localities arc 

 given, with a sketch map of twenty or thirty square miles and a section 

 across. F. D. 



Yule, H. Geographical Notes on the basins of the Oxus and the 

 Zarafshan (from the papers of the late A. Fedchenko). Geogr. 

 Mag., June, pp. 49, 53. 



Among these notes there is one of gaseous exhalations from a moun- 

 tain called Kantagh in the Kohistan of the Zarafshan. Gases escape 

 from fissures, and are of so high a temperature that they set fire to 

 wood ; sulphur is deposited from them ; coal crops out near. There is 

 also a note on localities of salt-mines in the basin of the Oxus : — 1. 

 Altinin Dara, on the S. of Alai ; 2. Near Norak on the Surkhab ; 3. In 

 the mountains near Huzar or Guzar. F. D. 



