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hurriedly at a temperature of 96° in my tent—a temperature which renders
breaking stones a work of rather a severe kind. We have, however, made a good
collection, and among our fossils can number at least twelve species of mollusca,
two of echinodermata, and one tooth—probably that of a shark. That the coal is
a lignite, I have not the slightest doubt ; but as it is one of good quality, will be
highly useful if found in a locality where it can be easily worked.
c{ From the immense deposit of rock above the coal seam, sinking a shaft
would be a work of great expense, and were the course of the seam as it dips to
the North West at an angle of from 40° to 50°, to be worked, beginning at the
surface, there would be a continual annoyance from the rolling down into the pit
or excavations of the immense deposit of fragments of rock superior to the coal seam
on the sides of the mountain or hill. From the foot of the salt range, the Jhelum is
only some four or five miles distant, where boats can be had in any number for con
veying the coal to distant parts. J> *
The outbreak at Mooltan occasioned the recall of Dr Fleming when in the
midst of his investigations. The following extract from a letter written by him on
his return to Lahore gives the conclusion of his observations for the present.
Next year it is to be hoped he will renew his labours :—
“ I have been along the whole of the Range from Kalibag to Find Dadud
Khan, and have been much pleased with the trip. At Kalibag I examined the
Coal there, and the bituminous shales which when burnt yield the alum of the N. W.
Provinces. I also got a number of fossils,—ammonites, belimmites, echinidse, se
veral specis of terbratula and productas, all of which bear a strong resemblance to
* Gentlemen travelling in India find so much difficulty m resorting to libraries, or
• * reference along with them, that writers on subjects which have
in carrying books or reie^e k , prv c^pHes of disadvantage. Subjoined is a
not appear to have ever seen ^ Governme nt to examine the coal at Kalabagh. On most points
‘md ornaments of callings. It can be had in abundance from Scinde, China, or the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ,
for f^omTs 4 to Rs 8% ton-much cheaper than the cost of carriage from Kalabagh Gyp-
fum res not fah to powder when burnt, but requires Ma 1 g
use seems to have been long known in Scinde, though apparently unknown m India .
[FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, NO. CXXXV., 1843.J
Salt Ranae.-From Jalalpore, the salt range extends in a N. W. by W. (iirec ^ 10 y 1
ree on the Indus, when it crosses the river, and can be trac ed ^J ^ n ^ to the N., where
her or Teera mountains. From it various secondary branches Proceed as oneG^t form _
it is met with in the neighbourhood oi Rotas, and on winch t isinrtbward and probably then
ing the Tillah hills of Elphinstone; it extends for a short distance Northward^ and ^
makes a bend to the Eastward. All these ranges jom the lo ^ however cross there, and run
none of them cross the Jelum below the town of Jelum ^bes , c ’ r ossing the Jumna at
on by Bimber, Jummoo, Nurpoor, and down by the South be 1 P > ^ nea ® g ou th-east as
Fyzabad, and the Ganges at Hurdwar * The whole course from ‘ u re is parallel to the
possible, like all the other secondary ranges of the Himalayas.! The salt ra g p
central or high mountain range.
* Journal of the Asiatic Society,
f Elphinstone’s Cabul, vol. II.? P* 40*.