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beds from three to six feet iu thickness before reaching the large deposit, 

 then being minedj and which had a thickness of one hundred and seventy 

 to two hundred feet. The salt was, as usual, accompanied by gypsum, 

 and the mines were situated about forty-five feet above the bed of a 

 small stream. 



Judging from the distance between these mines and Jutana it does 

 not seem likely that Dr. Jameson referred to the bad salt in the ravine 

 eastward of the village, but rather to some of the old workings to the 

 westward ; at one of these localities there is a twenty -foot layer of bad 

 salt, but the others, forming a group of three or four, and lying to the 

 westward still, are probably those visited by Dr. Jameson. From the 

 height at which these mining localities are situated, if they contain the 

 gi-eat mass of salt recorded by this writer (very nearly the same thick- 

 ness as the Khewra beds), it may prove advantageous to re-open them. 



The marl of this beat often shows considerable masses of greenish 



gray colour, generally broken up and confused, but 

 Salt marl. 



probably the remains of such gray dolomitic and 



gypseous layers as are found in other places to the west. In the more 



gypseous parts, horizontally undulating stratification may be occasionally 



seen. 



The sections exposed by the clifis above this marl are very much the 



same as those nearer to Jutana,'^ but owing to 

 Cliff sections. ... 



slipping are sometimes much confused; the next 



rock to the marl, for instance, on the road to Salowi from Jutana, being 



the salt-crystal band, here abounding with the sandy pseudomorphs, and 



* There is a large space of ground near the ruined mining village of Jutana bearing 

 the marks of having been cultivated. On the removal of the miners to Khewra their fields 

 may have been abandoned ; but according to the statement of a native of the present village, 

 this land was irrigated by means of the more easterly of two streams running close together 

 from the north. This, he said, had suddenly become salt, and thus the cultivation had to be 

 discontinued. It seems probable that the stream may have worn a passage down to some 

 salt bed in the marl. There are numbers of ruined villages all along the foot of the range, 

 about which nothing is known ; they are all presumed to have belonged to miners of early 

 periods, 



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