ECONOMIC ASPECT OF SALT REGION. 217 



16. NmdrukM lies north of Hukani mountains and north-west 

 from Skukkurdarra. North of the village of Nundrukki there is a large 

 area of gypsum, on a commanding point of which a guard tower has been 

 erected ; near this is a crater-like hollow with a subterranean escape. 

 North and east of it are two more such hollows, with ravines running 

 into them ; these also have subterranean outlets. The sides of the cra- 

 ters are all naturally c dressed' by earth and debris, amongst which large 

 vertical cliffs of rock-salt crop out. It is of the usual appearance and 

 gray colour. A good deal of heading would have to be removed before 

 safe quarries could be opened, but for mining operations the locality 

 seems well suited ; the salt here must be nearly horizontal ; there is a fourth 

 hollow of the same kind to the east, but the salt is not seen. The craters*, 

 being 200 feet in depth, this thickness at least may be attributed to the 

 salt. Around this place there are some smaller exposures : one, called 

 Surdand-drung, lies within a mile north-eastward in the same gypsum 

 area, another near it is called Esho or Yeshu-drung. Another occurs 

 south-west from the watch tower near the village Kurrari associated with 

 a quantity of gypseous debris, and north-westward of the latter is still 

 another small salt locality near the summit of Peer Goot (Pir Gut) Sir 

 mountain. 



17. Bund, Durri-drung is the name of a small salt outcrop which 

 occurs in the range connecting Nundrukki and Kurar Sir and on its 

 southern side, below gypsum. The locality is two miles east of the 

 village of Dand, and is sometimes called by that name. The quantity of 

 salt is very small, and the locality unfavorable for excavation, yet 

 quarries are said to have been worked here in former times. 



A small quantity of salt was said to have been once exposed between 

 this and the Turrilli ravine or Mittan pass to the east. 



18. Kurdr. — A large exposure of salt occurs in the southern face 

 of the hill below Kurar Sir, and a guard post has been built for its pro- 

 tection. The rock-salt has a thickness of 150 feet as far as it is shown 

 by the outcrop, but this cannot be at all presumed upon as any limit of 



d 2 ( 321 ) 



