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and
apparently among the lower beds of the Lower Siwalik group. The process
is not continuous, being only carried on after heavy falls of rain in
the smaller streams, and in the Indus when floods permit. The amount
realized can hardly be closely ascertained, for as the industry is
taxed it is the interest of the operators to conceal their gains.
According to the best information obtainable these fluctuate from three
to four annas' worth a day per man, this being generally thought rather
above the measure of success.*
The gold washing in the Salt Range is described in some detail by Dr, Fleming in his Report.f
Dr. Jameson also alludes to the gold which is found there.J
Ultra-Peninsular Areas.
The principal gold-producing countries beyond, but adjoining the limits of, Peninsular India, are en the east:—
1. Assam.
2. Burmah.
And on the west and north :—
3. Afghanistan.
4. Thibet.
Assam. —
In Assam Capt. Dalton and Col. Hannay carried on researches, in
reference to the occurrence of gold, which were made public through the
medium of the " Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal."§
Subsequently the same gentlemen were requested by Government, in the
year 1855, to undertake a farther examination of the auriferous
deposits
* Wynne, "Mem. Geol. Survey of India," vol. xiv. p. 303. t "Jour. Asiatic Society Bengal,'' 1853, p. 230. J Ibid., vol. xi. p. I. § Vol. vii. p. 625, and vol. xxii. p. 511.
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