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PART III. 



On the economic aspect of the Trans-Indus Salt Region, by Dr. 



H. Warth, Inland Customs Department, being extracts from the 



report submitted to Government* ; with additions by A. B. Wynne, f.g.s. 



The position of the salt region and the rocks found associated 

 with the salt have been already described in foregoing parts of this 

 memoir, and it has been mentioned that the salt quarried at Kalabagh, 

 although situated on this side of the Indus, from its character and geolo- 

 gical associations, is to be referred to the saline deposits of the Salt 

 Range, rather than to those of the Kohat district. 



There is a wide difference in the manner of working the salt of 

 the Cis and Trans-Indus deposits, the former being all obtained by under- 

 ground mining, while here mere quarrying is the rule, notwithstanding 

 which, the name of ' Kohat salt mines' is often applied to the Trans-Indus 

 salt quarries. For facility of reference the following sketch will show 

 the relative positions of the old and modern salt quarries or localities in 

 which the salt is now worked, as well as places where it is known to 

 exist. 



Fig. 56. Diagram shewing positions of salt localities. 



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* This report of Dr. Warth in full was forwarded to and printed by order of Gov- 

 ernment. Some additional historical particulars from Captain Plowdens memorandum are 

 added here. 



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