294 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF THE SALT RANGE IN THE PUNJAB. 



the following quantities o£ coal were raised at the Salt Range (the 

 localities not being given) : — 



In the year 1863 ... 



199 maunds. 



„ 1864 ... 



... 9,742 



» 1865 ... 



... 27,528 „ 



„ 1866 ... 



... 14,596 



„ 1867 ... 



710 





52,775 maunds, or 





1,937 tons, 11 cwt. 



In nearly all of the localities given in Dr. Oldham^s list (see below), 

 and in a few besides, the coal of the lower nummulitie beds was found to 

 be so dull and weathered on its outcrop that it was only by cutting into 

 the beds the mineral could be seen. In some spots the waste-heaps had 

 spontaneously ignited, but this did not appear to have occurred in the 

 beds. At no locality were works being carried on, and the largest of 

 the abandoned excavations were those at Pid and Samuiidri, where bun- 

 galows had been built j that at the former place was occasionally used, 

 but the house at the latter, to which there were but faint traces of a 

 road, was fast falling into a ruinous state. It is supposed that these 

 were the places whence the nineteen hundred and odd tons just men- 

 tioned were extracted. 



Everything connected with these deposits of coal and shale which 

 has been ascertained during the examination of the ground, tends to show 

 that they have a very general but not continuous existence, and there 

 are circumstances to the westward which show either the occurrence of 

 a higher band of coaly shales, as at the Bakh ravine, or that, from 

 increase of the lower portion of the nummulitie limestone, the place 

 of the band has been shifted higher up in this group. Westwards 

 of this place, the basal portion of the nummulitie beds is still earthy, 

 and the form of the talus, at the foot of the cliffs in which the limestone 

 terminates, shows the beds to be soft, the rocks next below the num- 

 mulitie group in this region, when seen, being often earthy and shaly. 

 Some traces of gypseous clay, and the gypseous nature of the lowest 

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