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country is so complete a desert, that with the exception of a few gardens 
under its walls, there is no agriculture within four miles of the town. 
The classic name of Indus sounds pleasing to the ear, but no beauty must 
be looked for in its eastern branch; as far as I have described, it runs 
through a dreary desert where there is not a single object to relieve the 
eye. From Sindri the hills of the Pacham are a little elevated above the 
horizon to the eastward; those of Narra, in Cutch, may also be distin- 
guished; and in a clear day, even Lacpat is visible. I have no where 
entered into a proof of the Cori having been at a former period the eastern 
mouth of the Indus, as it is a fact which has never been doubted, and is 
notorious in the history of the country. I cannot, however, conclude 
without mentioning the difficulties I have had to encounter in drawing up 
even this short memoir, from the singularly vague and unheard-of names 
which make their appearance in our best maps. I have inquired in vain for 
the branch of the Indus called Zuné, and have not fallen in with a native 
who knew any of the branches of the river by that name. It is always 
applied to the river which flows through the Jédpur territory, from Ajmir to 
the head of the Pdrcar Runn. The Guni, however, is known to them, and 
the P’harran is said to be an offset from it. The name of Zuni must have 
crept into our maps from a belief that the river which I have above alluded 
to, flowed into the sea by Lacpat,* or perhaps the Cori may have acquired 
the name from its vicinity to Luna on the Banni or grass lands north of 
Cutch. 
PAWT Tr. 
Tue subject of the preceding Memoir had engaged much of my atten- 
tion for some months subsequent to my visiting the Indus in March 1827, 
and I was naturally desirous of ascertaining whether or not the surmises 
which I had then thrown out were likely to be realized, or prove in any 
degree just. In August 1828, therefore, I prepared for a second visit to the 
* See Memoir, Part II, 
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