16 blanford: geology or western sind. 



A paper by Lieutenant (afterwards Sir Alexander) Burnes " On the 

 Geology of the banks of the Indus/' &c, was read 

 to the Geological Society of London in 1833. 

 Of this paper an abstract was printed in the Geological Transactions, Series 

 2 Vol. hi, pao*e 491, and in the Proceedings of the Geological Society, 

 Vol. ii pace 8. Brief mention is made of some of the rocks observed on 

 the banks of the river in Sind in the " Cabool,-" by the same author, page 

 40 : the hot spring at Laki and the abundance of fossils in the lime- 

 stones are noticed. 



In a " Report on Upper Sind and the eastern portion of Cutchee," 

 by Lieutenant J. Postans, Assistant Political 

 Agent, published in the Journal of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal, Vol. xii, page 29, under the head of minerals, the 

 occurrence of sulphur and alum in the Marri and Bugti hills is men- 

 tioned and of limestone at Sukkur and Rohri ; but the want of stone in 

 Upper Sind is noticed as the great peculiarity of the country. 



Sura-eon C. F. Collier published a paper, in the Transactions of the 

 Bombay Geographical Society, Vol. ix, page 99, 

 entitled " On the nature of the soils of the Bombay 

 Presidency." This paper comprises, page 108, a few remarks on the 

 rocks around Hyderabad and on the road thence to Karachi via Tatta. 

 The next paper is one by Dr. Buist, entitled "The Volcanoes of India," 

 and is also published in the Transactions of the Bom- 

 bay Geographical Society, Vol. x, page 139. The 

 hot-springs at Mugger Peer and Laki are mentioned, and a crater is 

 described as having been blown out in the "Minora hills" 2 miles 

 west of Mugger Peer. Three views of the supposed crater are given, 

 Plates VI, VII, VIII. No igneous rocks are known in the locality, and 

 from the figures it is probable that the supposed crater is due to denuda- 

 tion of a peculiar form, very possibly affecting a hard bed resting on 

 softer strata. 



" A report of the disastrous consequences of the severe earthquake 



felt on the frontier of Upper Sind on the 24th 



Mercwethcr, 1852. , «*«« i t- j i , o- t*t \ 



January 1852, by Lieutenant (now Sir W.) 



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