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jab, to the north, along the Suleman Range to Peshawar; in the 
“Salt Range ;” in Northern Punjab, through the Hazara and the 
Murree Hills, and other hills west of the Indus; and along a 
region 200 miles or more long and 25 wide in Tibet, in the upper 
Indus valley, 15,000 feet above the sea level.* (The statement, 
by Dr. Thomson, as to the occurrence of Nummulitic beds on the 
Singhi Pass, at a height of 16,600 feet, is said to need confirma- 
tion, because of the importance of the fact, if true. 
9.) A thickness of Tertiary in the Sub-Himalayas (a range of 
mountain ridges, fifty miles in width, 5,000 to 8, 000 and rarely 
in ja 
of 25, 000 feet thick, 15,000 feet being of the Siwa alik formation or 
Upper Tertiary; in Sind, in the Mountains of Khirthar, 8,000 to 
10,000 feet for the Pliocene (Manchhar Brown) wots "the beds 
much folded, (related to the Pliocene of ce Siwalik Hills). 
(10.) In the Pu njab, beyond the parallel of oo between the 
Indus and Jhelun, the “Salt Range,” including str ata ranging 
from the Silurian (?) to the Pliocene, many containing marine fos- 
sils, the Sub-Carboniferous limestone being well dapleves and 
extending into Kashmir. 
(11.) Salt-bearing beds (Silurian ?) at the base of the series of 
the “Salt Range,” the salt layers often 100 feet thick, and at the 
Mayo Mines of Khewa, containing 550 feet of pure e and i impure 
salt, in a thickness of 1,000 feet; also, in the Kohat region, in the 
12.) Trap rocks, cite and ‘beasle aoe “Deccan trap”—of 
great geog raphieal ¢ a ars Ee) with even pepe Ares fro 
the sea-coast at N 
82° E.), a from n ca pane 5° 35’ N.) to cas of Goona 
5° N.), a a, covering about 16 degrees of longitude and et 
Bombay to Nagpur, 519 miles long, never leaving the vo as 
rocks until it is close to the Nagpur station); and all subaerial in 
origin; probably erupted at or near the close of the Cretaceous or 
intervals during a long period; the thickness near Bombay, 6,000 
feet ; in pmol, about 2,500; in Sind, only 200 in two bands ; in 
Belgaum, at the southern limit, 2 000 to 2,500 feet; to the south- 
east, soak nares 100 to 200 ote 
and these Eocene beds extend, according to Stoliczka, from Kargil, on the west, 
eastward for more than 200 miles, to beyond the eastern limit of his explorations. 
The Zanskar contains also 8,000 to 9 ,000 feet of fossiliferous Cretaceous, Jurassic, 
i i Zanskar ran 
ge 
contains several peaks 20,000 feet in height, and “has a right to be o— 
the principal continuation of the Himalayan chain.” Its gneiss is “to so 
extent, at least, a rock formed of cavilel Paleozoic strata.” 
