2 WYNNE : TKANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



country has been approximately recorded with a degree of accuracy 

 greatly depending upon the limited means at command. 



In consequence of some uncertainty as to the kind of information 

 Government wished to obtain, and in order to furnish more comprehensive 

 details, the assistance of Dr. Warth, of the Inland Customs Depart- 

 ment (Deputy Collector in charge of the Mayo Mines at the Salt Range), 

 was applied for from the conviction that his special experience of salt 

 mines and mining in England, Germany and India, as well as his practi- 

 cal knowledge of the Cis-Indian salt, would aid in obtaining a better 

 acquaintance with the salt deposits of this region, while in considering 

 them from an economic point of view his services would prove highly 

 advantageous. 



Permission was given in compliance with this application, but Dr. 

 Warth's duties at the Mayo Mines detained him till the examination of 

 the ground was considerably advanced ; however, by making double 

 marches he was enabled to visit the important and largest exposure at 

 Bahadur Khel, and subsequently to join in the inspection of a large 

 number of the other salt localities. 



A rapid reconnaissance across a part of this Kohat district by my 

 colleague, Dr. Waagen, and myself in the year 1872 had led us to 

 doubt the identity of the two salt series lying, mainly, one on either side 

 of the river Indus. In the hope of clearing up this point, some time, 

 previous to Dr. Warth/s arrival, was devoted to visiting the old and 

 unused salt localities and exposures from Lachee (Lachi) to Manzulli on 

 both sides of the upper part of the valley of the Teeree Towey (Tin 

 Taui) river; the geology of the ground being mapped en route. After 

 this the Bahadur Khel and other western localities were examined, and 

 then operations were carried eastward, until temporarily interrupted by a 

 heavy fall of snow at Sunda Kulla Khel on New Year's Day, ] 874. 

 "When the weather permitted work was continued in an easterly direction 

 towards the Indus. In no part of the district thus traversed has any- 

 thing been found- leading to the abandonment of previous suspicions, and 

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