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ing ; projecting sufEciently above tlie flood for the custom house officers 

 to save their lives by ascendiDg it. From this they were taken the 

 following day in boats. 



The estuary of the Koree at Luhput was previously fordable. 



Changes in tlie Koree *^® ^^^^'■' ^* ^^^ ^^^® ^®^°§' ^^°'^* ^ ^°°* ^'''^^ ^^ 



atLukpixt. flood not more than 6 feet deep; but after the 



earthquake the depth at the fort of Lukput became more than 18 feet 

 at low water ; and on sounding the channel Captain MacMurdo says 

 it was found to have a depth of from 4 to 10 feet from Kuteh to the Sind 

 shore. In 1820, however, a ford was found here, while at the same place 

 in 1826, Sir A. Burnes found a depth of 15 feet. 



It is not clear that these measurements were all taken at the same 

 Uncertainty as to the P^^^^ °'' ^^'T ^ear it ; a sharp bend occurs in the 

 soundings. q]^ river course at Lukput, some portions of which 



may have always been deep ' dro/is ' or pools, while the rush of the sea 

 water into the Sindree depression would be likely to deepen the 

 passage through which it entered. The estuary is now again fordable 

 near Lukput at low tide (1869). 



Simultaneously with or shortly after the submergence of Sindree, 

 „,■,,,. „ and about five and half miles to the north, the 



Reputed elevation of > 



the Alliih Bund. inhabitants ' saw a long elevated mound where the 



surface had previously been a low and level plain.' ' It extended east and 

 west for a considerable distance and passed immediately across the channel 

 of the Koree, separating as it were for ever the Phurraun' (Pooraun) (or the 

 Narra and Goonee rivers, its upper waters) ' from the sea. The natives 

 called this mound by the name of " Allah Bund," or mound of God, lu 

 allusion to its not having been a work of man but a dam thrown up by 

 nature.' The height of the mound is given by Captain MacMurdo at 

 10 feet, by Lieutenant Raikes at 18, and is said to be pretty equal throuob. 

 out. It has only the appearance of a mound as seen from the south side 

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