34 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KUTCH. [PAET I. 



presentiDg' no fenture Whatever to tlie north.* Its length is indefinite;, 

 being- iisually reckoned at fifty miles, or the east and west distance between 

 the routes across the Runn from Loona (on the Bunnee) to E,aoma-ka- 

 bazaar on one side, and from Lukput in Kntch to Loonda and Garree on 

 the other. The latter route is now disused in consequence of the danger- 

 ous state of the Runn, quicksands occun'ing on that side of the Siudree 

 basin, and a more circuitous one lias been adopted. 



The l)ed of the Koree at a place called by different writers Sindu. or 

 Reported elevation of Suuda or Sundo, on the south side of the Sindree 

 '""^ "■ depression, is reported to have been raised for two or 



six miles by the earthquake of 1819.t The most definite information with 

 regard to this spot is given by Sir G. Le G. Jacob, who, however, had 

 some doubt as to his notes made respecting the locality. He says, " the 

 earthquake of 1819 raised the ground, so as to leave the tide there waist 

 hio-h," and that it was subsequently raised still higher ; but on the oldest 

 copy of Sir A. Burnes' map procurable (dated 1828), the place affected 

 by the tides is marked nearer to Lukput by eight miles. 



It is recorded % fbat subsequently, in 1826, the Upper Indus burst 

 „, ^ , , ,, , its banks, overspread the desert, burst every artifi- 



The Indus cuts through ' r j j 



the Allah Buna. ^^^ ^^.^ J^ ^]^g river, and forced its waj^ by the old 



channel, cutting for itself a passage through the Allah Bund. 



To inspect this. Sir Alexander Burnes, in March 1827, proceeded 

 _ from Lukput in a small flat-bottom boat by the 



Sir Alexander Burnes ^ •> 



visits the place, 1827. ^.j^gj, ^.q ^j^g Allah Bund. At Lukput, and for twelve 



miles up stream, the river was 300 yards wide, and from two to three 

 fathoms deep. At ' Sindu' or ' Sundo,' ' about four leagues distant from 

 that town, the channel shoaled to 4- or 5 feet for two miles, but then 

 reo-ainino- its depth, he entered on a vast inland lake that reached to the 



* From description by an eye witness. 



t Two miles according to Sir A. Burnes, six according to Colonel Grant's informant. 



J By Sir Alexander Burnes. Authority cited. 



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