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times, and the extra-peninsular regions — the Punjab, Sind, the 
Himalayas, and Assam — which have frequently been covered by 
sea. He treats in succession of the physical geography of the 
province, of its geological characteristics, and of its useful mi- 
nerals. The latter unfortunately are far from numerous, and, 
save building stone and limestone, none are abundant. Coal has 
been found, but it is scant in quantity and poor in quality, being 
merely a lignite abounding in iron pyrites, and liable to sponta- 
neous combustion. 
There is an Appendix, by Mr. F. Fedden, on the distribution 
of the fossils in the tertiary and infra-tertiary groups of Sind. 
Vol. XVII., Part II. 
This part is an account of the Trans-Indus extension of the great 
Punjab Salt- Range, by Mr. A. B. Wynne, and is preceded by a 
prefatory notice from the pen of Mr. H. B. Medlicott, which 
proves — if proof were still needed — that there are occasional 
outbreaks of discord among the geologists of the great Indian 
Survey. We may perhaps be pardoned for remarking that we 
have not come upon anything of a similar nature in the reports 
of the American Survey of the Territories. 
The region is characterised by the strange distortion of its 
rocks, which often assume the most singular colours, — green, 
blue, orange, and purple, — producing a fantastic scenery of which 
the illustrations give some idea. Gold is washed in the Indus 
and the Kuram, and in the former river is said to be accompanied 
by platinum, of which no recent evidence has been obtained. 
