HARBOUR OF KURRACHEE. 61 



southern extremity of the Halarange, is, in 

 coming from Bombay, the point made for ; a 

 little to the eastward of it is Kurrachee Bay ; 

 besides which the sea face of the Province has 

 four minor ports, for the import and export 

 of merchandise by native craft, viz. Ghizree, 

 Wugodur, Klietti, and Seir Gunda, but Kurra- 

 chee is the only land-locked harbour on the 

 coast between Bombay and the Red Sea, and 

 is the nearest safe port to the Persian Gulf. 



The harbour of Kurrachee can be entered 

 throughout the year by square-rigged vessels of 

 800 tons burden, and not drawing more than 

 1 8 feet water, and vessels drawing even 20 feet 

 have entered with safety ; but tlie port is closed 

 during the monsoon to country craft, which are 

 unable to face its violence, and the traffic 

 between Kurrachee and the river is during the 

 Monsoon months carried on at the ports of 

 Ghizree and Wugodur. 



Kurrachee harbour has been surveyed and 

 buoyed off. It possesses a light-house, pro- 

 jected by Sir Charles Naj^ier, and erected on the 

 highest point of the promontory of Munora, at 

 the entrance of the harbour, whicli is about 200 

 feet above the level of the sea. On a clear 



