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siderably higher than the country ; and a pilgrim 

 told me, that he had been informed, that there was 

 an arm of the Lulus running parallel to it, but that 

 he did not see it. The whole ridge was probably 

 thrown up by the sea, and is covered with a shrub 

 called Luni in that country, Jhau on the banks of 

 the Ganges, and Ghezz in Persian, at least in that 

 dialect of it, which is used about Candahar and 

 Ghazni. Hence it is probable, that the eastern 

 branch of the Indus is called by Ptolemy Loni-bare, 

 from that circumstance. It is three or four feet 

 ]iigh, and delights in very sandy and low places. 

 Its stalk is ver\^ crooked, but its branches and leaves 

 are somewhat like those of the cypress *. 



The various branches of the Indus, according to 

 the best information I could procure, stand thus. 

 First, the small river before mentioned, but which 

 is not reckoned as a mouth of the Indus: it is called 

 Asa, from a place of worship, or rather consecrated 

 spot, of that name. The second, called Lac-put, or 

 Pokydri, and Puckar, in a map by Major Rennell. 

 The third, Bustah-bunder, answering to JVarreL 

 The fourth, Bdnyhii, Ghaindd or Gov ah. Kaar is 

 the iiftli : then follows the Jumnd, \vhich is the 

 H'ljjdmdny of Major Rennell. The seventh is 

 Rislidd, or Dishdd, called also Divel. The eighth is 

 the Jowd, written Juhoo in the maps, with a little 

 village to the west, called Nowa-bunder. The infor- 

 mation which I was able to procure does not go 

 beyond the Jowd, except concerning a small branch 

 in the track of the pilgrims, within a few miles of 

 Cra7ichi or Crdchi, and which, they say, falls either 

 into that harbour, or into the sea very near it. Ac- 

 cording to Father Monserrat, who wrote above 



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* It is tbe Tamarix Indlca K.c^w. 

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