Salt Range, a mountain-system in the Punjab, India, consists of two main chains running east and west, and embracing between them an elevated tableland. It begins on the south side of the Jhelum, runs west to the Indus, and varies from 3200 to 5000 feet in height. Its appearance is exceedingly bleak and barren, but not without much savage grandeur. The system gets its name from the inexhaustible beds of rock-salt that occur on the edges of the plateau. Some 60,000 tons are extracted annually, four-fifths from the Mayo mines, a few miles north-east of Pind Dadan Khan. Coal and other minerals also occur.
Salt Range
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 122
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