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The Salt Range may be considered as resulting from the union of 

 three low independent ranges, subordinate to the Punchah branch 

 of the Himalayas, which run towards the plain in a southerly 

 direction. 



The first or most easterly of these ranges runs along the left bank 

 of the river Jhelum, and opposite the town on the line of the trunk 

 road, receives the name of the Kharian Range. Further down the 

 river this is known as the Pubbee Hills, and near Russool, famous for 

 the position of the Seikh encampment after the battle of Chillian- 

 walla, approaches the river, being evidently continuous with hills of 

 similar character, which form its right bank between Darapoor and 

 Jelalpoor, and which are locally designated Surafur. 



The central or Rhotas range crosses the Peshawur road about 

 7 miles West of Jhelum, and stretches in a S. W. direction as far as 

 the Boonah nullah. Here it takes a southerly turn, and under the 

 name of Chumbah runs on to Jelalpoor, uniting in its course with 

 the Kharian Range. The well known mountain Tillah, 18 miles 

 S. W. of Jhelum, is the highest point of this range and not less than 

 3,000 feet above the level of the sea. 



The western or Bukrala Range is separated from that of Rhotas 

 by a ravine country about 10 miles in breadth. It runs parallel 

 with the latter and after crossing the Boonah nullah at the Grhori- 

 gulla Pass, forms the ridge known as Diljubba, the west end of 

 which unites with the general map of hills forming the Salt Range. 



By the union of the Kharian and Rhotas or Chumbul ranges at 

 Jelalpur, a ridge is formed presenting a steep escarpment to the south 

 and a highly inclined slope to the north, at this point it is about 

 three miles distant from the Jhelum, an alluvial plain intervening, the 

 height of which does not probably much exceed 600 feet above the 

 sea, and which, as we proceed westward, gradually expands into the 

 plain of the Sinde Saugor Doab. 



Prom Jelalpur the direction of the range is about west by south as 

 far as Kuttba. Here it takes a turn to the S. ~W. running in this di- 

 rection as far as Jubbi, which is its most southerly point. Prom this 

 for a distance of about six miles, it runs nearly due west to Chooa, 

 and then gradually trends round to the north, running from Puttipur 

 to the Indus in a N. W. direction. It maintains the same course 



