14 WYNNE: TRANS- INDUS SALT REGION, KOHAT DISTRICT. 



ness of the ground ; and such is the scarcity of the food for animals that 

 those who come long distances to the quarries for salt prefer bringing 

 forage with them to buying it in the neighbourhood. The outline of 

 the hills is uneven, sometimes strikingly abrupt ; for instance, at the con- 

 spicuous summits of SiikaVar, Hukani, and Qund (the widower), Hukani 

 east of Shakardarra, or at the curiously castellated rocks west of Bahadur 

 Khel called Kaffir K6t— 



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Fig. 1. Outline sketch of summit of Kaffir K6t or Lukkai Jooni Sir. 



marked upon the map as a fortress ! The natives said they had no 

 knowledge of a fort having ever stood here, and if the mural cliffs were 

 mistaken for one, it might well have been supposed to be the work of 

 Titans (see below). 



In certain cases the serrated outlines of the hills form a feature 

 so marked that the kind of rocks of which they are composed and the 

 position of the stratification can be assumed with considerable certainty 

 even from a distance, while in others the arrangement of the irregulari- 

 ties of the ground is not less strikingly characteristic of the strati- 

 graphical structure of the country. 



Colouring of the country. — The colouring of the ground is often 

 vivid, whole ranges taking a green tint, not from grass, but from the 

 local colour of the rocks with which others of a bright purple hue are 



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