Baluchistan has salt works. at Lyari, in the south, and rock-salt of a red colour occurs in the mountains between Cutch Gandava and Kalat.
In Further India and in the south-east of Asia salt is obtained on the coasts by evaporating the sea water, and inland, from saline wells, saline soils, and deposits of rock-salt.
Salt fields are, extensive at Shimpagah, a short distance above Mandalay, on the right bank of the Irawadi, and at other places in smaller quantities.
China.—Rock-salt occurs in the island of Taring Ming, in Yunnan, and Sze-chuen, and is freely worked ; and brine, nearly saturated, is found at great depths in wells, sometimes 1800 feet. But the great mineral salt district of China lies along the foot of the mountains forrning the eastern barrier of the great central plateau of Asia.
Salt wells and springs of China and springs of inflammable gas occur in the districts of Young Hian, Wei-Yuan-Hian, in the department of Kia Ting-Fu, in Szu-Tchouan on the borders of Tibet. In the neighbourhood of the town of On-Thouang Khiao are several thousands of these salt wells in a space of ten leagues by five. The wells are mostly half a foot in diameter, 1500 to 1800 French feet in depth.
Salt mines are worked iu the mountains of Corea, and the sea-shores and lagoons of Avadsi furnish salt to the Japanese.
In High Asia, a lake bed occupies the lowest part of the whole of Ala Shan and is 3100 feet above the sea ; it is about 33 miles in circum ference, and encrusted with a layer of pure salt 2 to 6 feet thick.
Ladalch.—Salt Lake of the Rupshu district is seven square miles in area. At its northern shore are a series of small lagoons, the water of which drying up leaves a deposit of common salt.
Tibet obtains its salt from the saline waters of its lakes —the Pangong Lake (100 miles), in Western Tibet ; Lake Nam-Cho, or Tengri-Nor, in E. Tibet, 15,000 feet above the sea, 50 miles long, and 16 to 25 miles broad. Another salt lake, Buleho, is to its north ; and to its south the lakes Dalai Dabasun, Dulau Nor, and Sir-ho Nor contain saline waters. Near the north bend of the lloang-ho are several deserts with Balt lakes, and Djaratai Dabasun, a dried-up salt lake to the west of the great bend of tho lloang-ho, supplies all the ueighbourhood.—Province of Sind; Bombay Selections, No. xvii., 1855 ; Panjab Cor respondence, 1860, iv. No. 4, 1869, No. 3 ; and .11. Pr. ; Ileyne; Captain Strayer, 1873 ; Al. Imbert ; Klaproth in Jam. Ed. Jour., 1830, p. 108 ; Drew, The Northern Barrier, p. 305.