46 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PAET I. 



whicli to the south and south-east the Kutch hills as far as Dbenodhur 

 could be seen ; to the east the Putchum mountains ; and to the north 

 a thin dark line of rising ground marked the AUah Bund beyond which 

 Veego-Gud and Raoma-ka-bazaar were said to lie. The distance from 

 Ahmrai Dhooi was estimated at thirteen mileSj which would agree pretty 

 nearly with the position of the ruin as shown by erossbearings upon 

 the Kutch hills ; these, however, being very distant, the bearings could 

 only roughly indicate the place. 



The western half of the tower had crumbled and fallen; what 

 remained of it, (see sketch plan, Plate II,) with small portions of 

 adjacent walls, was little more than 10 feet above the mud, but how much 

 had been buried in the sUt could not be ascertained. The ruins had the 

 appearance of being near the foundations; and some of the walls could be 

 traced among fallen bricks, pieces of sandstone and flags — among which 

 were lying, dead salt-dried fish, water snakes, and a few skeletons of birds.* 

 The only living things on the spot were a dove, a hawk which had 

 probably hunted it thither, and a few common house flies. The water 

 on the west side of the ruins retained no appearance of a river. It 

 was said to extend to the Allah Bund, visible northwards, and to the 

 south nearly to Nurrha. Here, at all events, it cannot be deep, for two 

 stray ponies seen on the opposite side at nightfall afterwards made their 

 way across it, attracted by a small fire of driftwood which the guides 

 had made ; they did not appear to have found it necessary to swim over. 

 No water mark could be observed upon the ruins.f 



* Compare wifh the sketch and plan here given the sketch by Captain Grindlay taken 

 in 1808, originally published in Burnes' Travels to Bokhara, 3rd vol., and subsequently 

 copied full size in Lyell's Principles of Geology, or in a reduced woodcut in the 9th and 

 10th editions ; and also with the sketch from a native drawing of the appearance of Siudree 

 in 1838, in Lyell's Principles, Geology. 



f Some sounds as of fish rising heard from the neighbouring water at night were said 

 to have been caused by tortoises or turtle, — but were quite as likely to have been made by 

 the ponies wandering at the water edge. 

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