•'> WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



Society of London,* makes one of his few references to the salt of this 

 district. He differs altogether from Major Vicary in thinking the 

 Salt Range salt connected with the tertiaries of Pind Dadun Khan, &c, 

 (though what these may be, seeing that place is far removed from the 

 last exposures of the tertiary beds, is somewhat doubtful), but he thinks 

 " it probable that the Trans-Indus salt is found in similar strata/' 



We are not aware on what grounds this probability is based by 

 Dr. Fleming, but if it be from personal observation, his opinion on the 

 subject should carry weight, as he was so well acquainted with the saline 

 series of the Salt Range. 



Karsien. — The salt mines of the Kohat district are probably those 

 referred to by Dr. C. I. B. Karsten as near (!) the Sufed Koh, in his 

 voluminous Lelirbuch der Salinenkunde published at Berlin in 1846, 

 (Vol. 1, p. 677). He describes the salt deposits as belonging to and 

 forming a part of the Indian Salt Range, following apparently the 

 paper by Burnes already noticed, an opinion which cannot be supported 

 here. 



In this volume containing so much information about the salt 

 mines of all countries, there is an allusion to the Red Indians of North 

 America perceiving the association of gypsum with rock-salt and think- 

 ing one a decomposed form of the other rock. It is curious to observe 

 that the Pathans of the Kohat district also notice the recurrence of these 

 two minerals together, and have been heard to call the salt of their 

 country SpeenJci ka bhai, i. e., brother of gypsum. 



Fleming. — Dr. Fleming, in his valuable reports on the (Cis-Indus) 

 Salt Range (Journal, Asiatic Society, Bengal, Vol. XVII, p. 500, Nov. 

 1848; also Vol. XXII), makes but slight allusion to the Kohat salt, 

 thinking it to be probably the same as that of the Salt Range, but does 



* Quar. Jour., Geol. Soc, Lond., Vol. ix, p. 189 (1853). 



On the Salt Range of the Punjab — Ey A. Fleming, k. I. c, Assistant Surgeon, 4th 

 Punjab Cavalry. Abstract of letters addressed to Sir R. Murchison. Read April 7, 1852, 

 1st letter from Murree, May 29, 1851 ; 2nd from Kutta Salt Range, July 16, 1852 ; 

 3rd, with specimens, &c, from Pind Dadun Khan, March 30th, 1852. 



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