684 Trip to Pind Badud Khan and the Salt Range. [July, 



In 1846, 332 tolas, Do. Rs. 990. 



At present the tax is Rs. 3-2 annas per tola of 12 annas the rupee. 



Great complaints were made by the sand-washers of their being 

 almost bound to sell the gold they collect to the Bioparees, who they 

 say will not pay them in money, but only give them an equivalent in 

 the shape of food and clothes. The gold here sells at Rs. 15 the 

 tola of 12 annas the rupee. The inhabitants of this place are de- 

 scribed as a very lawless set, and not at all inclined to pay attention to 

 the orders of Herr Bilas the kardar, who says he has much trouble 

 with them. 



No coal is known to occur in this neighbourhood, the rocks being all 

 of a comparatively recent date. Sulphur occurs at Jubba, 18 kos 

 from Mokhudd on the Indus. 



Mulk Ullah Yar Khan, jageerdar of Kalibag, came with his son to 

 meet me here, and presented a nuzzur of 1 1 Mahomed Shah rupees . 

 He stated that Captain Christopher took with him on his downward trip 

 in the Indus steamer 120 maunds of coal from Kalibag, two kinds of 

 which there occur. 



April \Ath. — Mokhudd to Kalibag by water, 12 kos. — From Mo- 

 khudd came down the Indus in a boat in 3|- hours, the distance to 

 Kalibag in this way being 1 2 kos, while by land it is said to be 1 9, 

 and the road very bad, the villages of Kani, Miker, Shucker and Musan 

 intervening. From Mokhudd to Kalibag the river is confined within 

 narrow limits by the soft sandstone strata, which at the former place 

 are nearly horizontal and of moderate height above the river, while 

 towards the latter locality these ascend at a considerable angle, and at 

 Dunghote, 3 miles from Kalibag, form barren rocks of great height, 

 which overhang the river on each side and seem to stretch to the W. 

 forming a high range of hills. The course of the stream above Kalibag 

 seems very free of shallows or rocks, and apparently is of great depth, 

 flowing with a considerable current. Two miles below Mokhudd, on 

 W. bank of the river, is a small village, Ruck wan. Three miles lower 

 down on E. side is the entrance of the Swank river, a kos below which 

 is the small village of Peer Pyai ; below this on opposite side are the 

 villages of Goli and Tulliah, from which latter place the strata on each side 

 of the river rapidly ascend to Dunghote, dipping to N. at an angle of 

 35°. Below Dunghote the salt mines appear on both sides of the river, 



