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• 111 the montli of May 1863 an intelligent person named Shaik 

 CI ■■, T^ ■ 1 Kasim, Surveyor to His Highness the present 



bnaik Kasim explores ' j ox 



the country, 1863. -^^^ ^f Kutch, was sent to explore the channel of 



the Koree in this vicinity. He likewise went by water from Lukput to 

 the Allah Bund ; northward of this the river was dry and without salt ; 

 but its bed was quite visible, 50 yards wide, with sloping banks from 10 

 to 15 feet in height. The ground to the north of the Allah Bund, 

 and thence to the margin of the Runn near Raoma-ka-bazaar, he des- 

 cribes as more broken and rather more sandy than the Runn, of the 

 kinds called ' huller' or '' laana' with clumps of coarse grass and a few 

 bushes. It was, generally speaking, flat, with small undulations ; had no 

 perceptible slope to the north ; was traversed by a few little water 

 channels (seldom or never seen on the Runn Proper), which led to the old 

 river bed for about a mile on each side of it, but outside this limit were 

 supposed by him to approach the Runn by circuitous courses to the east 

 and west. He thought the Allah Bund lower than the shore of the 

 Runn near Raoma-ka-bazaar, where some saud hills formed the highest 

 ground that he saw anywhere in the neighbourhood. Following the 

 bed of the river through this ground, he found it deep and with better 

 marked banks nearer to the above-named village ; but at Lallah Puttua 

 old bund it became again indistinct, and that bund on the upper side 

 was obscured by silting up. The bund at Dost Ali Bunder northward 

 of this was also silted up, but at Chaeta ( ? Chuttee Thur) Bund, still 

 further north, there was a visible dam with fresh water on its upper side. 



He estimates the distance from the Allah Bund to Raoma-ka-bazaar 

 at seven miles (having paid camel hire for eight) . This part of his jour- 

 ney occupied three hours, and he could go but slowlj^^ the ground beino- 

 in places muddy. As the result of his visit, he formed the opinion that 

 the small quantity of water which could be obtained from Siud after 

 supplying the irrigation there, would only be beneficial to the country 

 northward of the Allah Bund, by restoring the cultivation once existing 



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