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guard-house or tapii there are large crateriform hollows evidently formed 

 bv solution of underlying salt, and a considerable hill shows a strong salt 

 outcrop presented to the west, and dipping eastward beneath gypsum 

 and tertiary sandstones. The salt in this hill may be 200 feet in thick- 

 ness. The stratification is plain, and from the manner of exposure 

 appears as if nearly horizontal. Oblique lamination lines in the salt 

 occur, indicating currents coming from a northerly direction ; its general 

 colour is white or gray, and its purity intermediate between that of the 

 Bahadur Khe'l and Nurree (Narri) salts. The situation would be very 

 favourable for any kind of working. 



21. Tdpu-drungs — Westward of the Kurruk group of quarries,^ 

 there are several other outcrops, the place being known by the above 

 name taken from a guard-house or boorj on the spot. The salt has the 

 same general character as that at Kurruk ; it dips to the north at 30° 

 and 40°.— A. B. W. 



22. Gooroozi. — There are numerous salt exposures from the village 

 eastwards along a fault boundary between the gypseous series and 

 tertiary sandstones ; the salt is generally good, appearing in outcrops 

 from 20 to more than 50 feet high, according to the appearance of the 

 ground. — A. B. W. 



23. Zdwd Algud. — Where this stream issues from a rocky gorge 

 west-by-north from Gooroozi, great masses of salt are seen on the right 

 bank and in adjacent nullahs: the exposure measured 560 paces across 

 the strike, and the chief mass is about 80 feet in height; the salt is dark 

 gray, like that at Bahadur Khel, but less laminated or more solid, and 

 apparently more pure. A great deal of it was seen in perfectly naked 

 exposures. 



24. Boor dag (Snrddg) pass, or Thrukkah Algud. — The salt here is 

 near the southern mouth of the pass, and was traced along a faulted 

 junction with the tertiary sandstones and red clays for 600 paces, being 

 a few yards to a few feet in width ; part of it is overlaid by gypsum 



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