110 THE EASTERN BOUNDARY. 



aspect of the plain. There is scarcely a mile 

 of land in Sindh which does not bear evidence 

 of the effects of this law, whose workings are 

 moreover distinctly visible in the beds of every 

 natural and artificial water-course in the 

 country. 



'' Description of the Eastern Boimdarfj. — The 

 Great Desert forms the eastern boundary of 

 Sindh from its most northern frontier, in con- 

 tiguity with the Bhawulpoor state, until the 

 Eunn of Cutch to the southward. This waste 

 is variously called in different latitudes ; in the 

 parallel of Jeysulmeer it bears the name of that 

 place ; lower down it is known as the Omerkote 

 Desert; and on the borders of Catch it is at 

 present recognised as the Thurr and Parkur 

 Districts. Its appearance is that of a succession 

 of huge and stationary waves of sand, whose 

 slopes are to the south and westward in the 

 direction of the prevailing winds, while to the 

 north and eastward they present abrupt bluffs. 

 The hollows intermediate between these sand- 

 hills, more especially those adjacent to the al- 

 luvial plain, are cultivable, and constitute the 

 only fields of the nomadic tribes inhabiting 

 these wastes. " 



