2 WYNNE : TRANS- INDUS EXTENSION OF THE PUNJAB SALT RANGE. 



Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1 upon Shekh Budm, with some allusions to 

 other parts of the region. 



Dr. Fleming's references to this district extend to the northern part 

 of the Khasor range, where he records the contact 



Dr. Fleming. . . . 



of the tertiary sandstones and clays with the car- 

 boniferous limestone, 2 and notices saliferous sandstones appearing from 

 beneath the latter. These he took to represent his Devonian rocks (the 

 saline series) east of the Indus. He mentions with more detail the rocks 

 of the Chichali pass and range, and those near Kalabagh, giving sections 

 of parts of both localities ; but his most detailed records will be found in 

 passages treating of the coal and alum of the hills near Kalabagh and 

 Kotli. His accounts exhibit a general accuracy of observation, but he 

 seems to have been led, by a desire to assimilate the ground he studied 

 with the geological systems of other countries, to conclusions that have 

 somewhat reduced the completeness of his work, which nevertheless retains 

 a marked superiority over all the early records of Northern Indian 

 geology with which I am acquainted. 



In his first paper (Journal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, Vol. xxxiv, page 

 42) above mentioned, Dr. Verchere describes a 



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section across the Maidan range, of which he gives 

 a map. In neither of these are the Jurassic beds present recognized as 

 such ; and the detrital covering of the uppermost conglomeratic portion 

 of the Siwalik rocks concealing, as usual, much of the relations of the 

 beds themselves, are described as moraines. The conglomerate band at 

 the top of the eocene limestone is noticed, and several analyses are given 

 of the lignites which occur associated with the lower eocene and Jurassic 

 alum shales. 



In his later and larger paper his description of the ranges beyond the 

 Indus, towards and including Shekh Budin hill, can be fairly followed by 

 one who knows the ground ; but the discrepancies of his details are nearly 



1 Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. XXXIII, p. 378. 



2 In which he in eluded the Ceratite beds. 



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