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Thus it appears that the water of Sindree Lake is not perma- 

 nent ; and that but a little remains, somewhere near or over the old 

 river channel, when the Kunn dries up. The miles of mud which had 

 to be crossed show, however, that after wet seasons or partial rains this 

 Sindree depression would be flooded. It has doubtless become reduced 

 in depth by 50 years' accumulation of silt, but this would appear to have 

 been so evenly distributed as to still preserve a hollow where the river 

 ran, and to have been partial or absent where the salt was found 3 feet 

 thick. On the return to Ahmrai Dhooi next day (having been obKo-ed 

 to remain by the tower all night) a dangerous quagmire or quicksand 

 was pointed out in the mud, similar to those at the west side of 

 the basin ; these perhaps representing such places as water was said to 

 have issued from duriug the great earthquake. 



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