Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1853

The first or most easterly of thescirranges 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. [...] As the numbers of the fragments appear to decrease the further from the surface we examine the breccia and as they are most numerous where there is evidence of the greatest disturbance in the surrouning rocks it is most probable that the breccia marl which we have seen in some ravines fully 200 feet thick has been formed on the surface of the regular marl at the time of or subsequent to th [...] Along the bed the prcess of working is the same as on the masses the whole of the good salt being mined without leaving any support for the roof of the workings there being nothing more than huge caves excavated etirely in the salt which is seldom or tver worked through either in the floor or roof of the caves because as the salt approaches its matrix it becomes intimately mixed with m [...] From the want of circulationEf air in most of the mines and the dampness of the atmosphere the heat is most oppressive and from the filthy habits of the miners the stench in some of the mines is quite overpowering. [...] 253 Besides the general outcrop of marl along the escarpment of the Range we have noticed it under the red sandstone on the N. W. on the scarped side of mount Kuringali the path between the villages of Cliuiiibi and Verhalee passing over it.