64 KURRACHEE. 



Bhawulpoor territory, on the soutli by the 

 ocean, eastward by the great and small sandy 

 deserts, and westward by the Lukkee and Hala 

 mountains, which separate it from Beloochistan. 

 The extent of the valley of the Indus may be 

 estimated at about 500 miles in length, allow- 

 ing for the windings of the river, but extremely 

 variable in its breadtli. Sindh is divided geo- 

 graphically into two principal portions, Upper 

 and Lower. Upj^er Sindh comprises all that 

 country along both banks of the Indus, from 

 Seliwan, northward to Bhawulpoor ; and Lower 

 Sindh, all that from Sehwan to the sea. 



Having established ourselves in the hotel, I 

 visited Meer Ali Moorad, who was kindness 

 itself, and welcomed me heartily to his native 

 land. We then drove down to the port to see 

 after our baggage, as one of my portmanteaus 

 was missing, but I was lucky enough to recover 

 it. Kurrachee is a native town of some j^reten- 

 sion, but situated on the margin of a vast 

 swamp, which at low water can ha.dly be 

 healthful. This swamp is crossed by a fine 

 causeway of cut stone tliree thousand yards in 

 length ; which was projected by the conqueror 

 of Sindh, and of which he completed 783 yards 



