500 Report on the Salt Range, [Nov. 



Potheet, — Direction north, road good and over level ground, no 

 houses, a " Dennkang" or rest-house. 



Rhejong. — Cross the Kiongola, a range of 300 feet or so* Direction 

 north. Here you fall into the road from Dabtah to Digarchi. The 

 Rhe Choo, which runs to the west, flows by the village. 



Lassoom, and thence to Digarchi, as by the Kanglachema route. 



Report on the Salt Range, and on its Coal and other Minerals. 



By Andrew Flemming, M. D. JEdin., Assistant Surgeon, 



7th Bengal N. I. 



On approaching the salt range from the Jhelum opposite Jelal- 

 pore, a traveller is at once struck with the brick-red tint and bar- 

 ren appearance which the strata forming the principal part of its steep 

 southern escarpment present to view, and with the peculiar white color 

 of the rock, which particularly to the westward, seems to cap the range, 

 resting on the inferior red strata, with which it forms a striking 

 contrast. 



Height and course of salt range. — Its height as stated in Malte Brun 

 and Balbi's Gazetteer is 2100 feet above the level of the sea, and from 

 Jelalpore the hills stretch W. S. W. until within about 20 miles of the 

 Indus, when they take a turn to the north, crossing that river at Maree 

 and Kalibag in a N. W. direction, from which latter place they divide 

 into two or three branches. 



The part of the salt range which first came under our observation 

 was in the neighbourhood of Pind Dadud Khan, where we arrived on 

 the 19th March 1848. From thence, after examining a locality 10 miles 

 to the eastward called Baghanawalla Davee, we crossed the hills to 

 Choee and Kutass, marched down along the foot of their northern 

 declivity to Noorpoor, crossed over the low hilly district towards Mok- 

 hudd, on the Indus, came down that river by water to Kalibag, which 

 we reached on the 14th April, and from whence we returned along the 

 south side of the range to Pind Dadud Khan, where our labors closed 

 on the 28th of that month. 



By adopting the above route, we were enabled to obtain a general 

 idea of the structure of both sides of the range, and though, on account 



