8 WYNNE : TRANS-INDUS SALT KEGION, tfOH^T DISTRICT. 



cular beds of salt occur near the bed of the Teeree Towey (Tiri Tauf) 

 river, neither of which statements appears to be supported by facts. 



The description of the section in the Soordag Towey (Stfrdag Taui) 

 or Algud (that is to say, the Kurshru Algad) near Bahadur Khel is any- 

 thing but correct. The red zone which will be found described in the 

 following pages is mistaken apparently for the red gypseous marl of 

 the Salt Range and is called Trias ! while a " thin bed of Jurassic 

 limestone " is stated to underlie a thin bed of nummulitic limestone. 

 The short description of the section given by the author will be found 

 to differ materially from the measured one at the same place detailed 

 below. Kaffir Kot crags are correctly stated, however, to be of conglo- 

 merate, though whether miocene or not js undecided, and the same 

 rocks appear to extend, as described, thence to the Koorum, but " the 

 wall of hills" north of Bannu valley does not appear to have the steady 

 north-west dip attributed to it, but rather to possess undulating incli- 

 nations, forming part of a general synclinal arrangement. 



Balfour's Cyclopedia of India. — In this work there are references to 

 the Kohat district, to the neighbourhood of Kohat containing numerous 

 mines of different metals, of which " Sond malchi" (iron pyrites) and 

 " Pital makhi" (? what) only are mentioned. A high range of neigh- 

 bouring hills is said to abound with mines of coal; fluid bitumen 

 (petroleum ?), and mornya (mumia) are stated to occur, and that the 

 naphtha is in common use by the natives for lamps is asserted. 



The authorities referred to for these highly exaggerated statements 



regarding the metallic and mineral wealth of the district are ( Mohun 



Lai's Travels, p. 358. Sch. Ad. Rcc. of G. of I., No. ii,' (? Adolphe 



Schlagintweit, Records of Government of India), 'Masson's Journey, 



Vol. I, pp. 114 to 117, and Cunningham's History of the Sikhs, pp. 6, 7. ' 



All efforts to trace these writings of Schlagintweit, if our reading be 



correct, have failed. Mohun Lai's travels have been thought open to 



doubt as to accuracy, and Cunningham's History of the Sikhs* has 



furnished no geological matter. 



* Information kindly supplied by the Hon'ble R. E. Egerton, Financial Commis- 

 sioner of the Punjab. 



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