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horizon on all sides, amid which the vemainiug tower of Sindree stood 

 like a roek in the ocean. At Sundo the water was brackish; at 

 Sindree it was quite fresh.^ Thence he proceeded to the Allah Bund, 

 which he found to be composed of soft clay with sliells elevated about 

 10 feet from the surface of the water, and cut through like a canal with 

 vertical banks on either side. The channel was about -35 yards broad 

 and three fathoms deep ; and a body of the fresh water of the Indus 

 rolled down it into the lake. Here he met several boats laden with ghee^ 

 which had descended from Wunga-Bazaar ; and he further observes that 

 ' there was water communication between Lukput and Omercote (iu 

 Sind) so late as May 1829.' Captain MacMurdo also mentions the 

 water traffic of this period from Sind to Kutch ; and Sir A. Burnes says 

 that ' the earthquake had an immediate influence upon the channel of 

 the river below the Allah Bund, which became navigable for boats of 100 

 tons from the sea to Lukput, which had never been the case since 1762.'' 



In August 1827 * he again visited the locality, and found that great 

 Sir A Burnes' second alterations had taken place : ' the river and lake 

 visit in 1827. ^gj,g deeper in all places by 2 feet, the channel 



through the ' Allah Bund'' was much widened, and the sheet of water 

 was now entirely salt, but the stream passing the ■" Allah Bund' was fresh, 

 though greatly diminished in size.' This visit was made during the 

 monsoon, and 'the south-westerly winds had blown the sea water in. 

 upon the fresh.' 



When Colonel Grant visited Lukput in 1834, very little change had 



taken place since Sir Alexander Burnes' visit, 



except that the Sindians had repaired all the 



bunds across the river, and thus by preventing further supplies of fresh 



water, the ' lagoon' had assumed much the same appearance as before 



the .freshes of 1828 [? 1826]. 



* Buvues' Travels, p. 318: iu the year 1828 according to Captain Baker and Sir 

 C. Lyell. 



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