83 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KTJTCH. [pART I. 



river failed to find a passage along its natural eliannel, wliich ' filled 



with mud and dried up above Sindree and sfioaled at Lukput ;' ' Sayra' 



becoming a part of the Runn, on which it formerly bordered.* 



Things remained in this state until the great earthquake which 



^ . was accompanied by a sudden depression of a large 



Depression. j. ./ ± o 



portion of the Runn north of Lukput, and of smaller 

 areas on its north and south sides near Dera Bet or Beyt, and in the 

 vicinity of Nurrha. 



In those days, Sindree was a station at which the Kutch Govern- 

 - „ ment levied customs : situated on the road to Sind, 



Occurrences oi year ' 



^^^^•^- and on the left bank of what had been the Koree 



river about 25 or 30 miles north-north-east of Lukput. ' It had a brick 

 fort 150 feet square, built for the protection of merchandize, with a small 

 garrison, a few huts outside, and one well.'' ' At sunset the shock was 

 felt there, the fort was overwhelmed by an inundating torrent of water 

 from the ocean, which spread on every side and in the course of a few 

 hours converted the tract, before hard and dry, into an inland lake 

 which extended for 16 miles on either side of Sindree.'' 



The Runn and Btinnee between Kutch and the Putchum (also dry), 

 „ ,. „ ^, were at the same time suddenly covered with a 



Flooaing; or the "^ 



^™"'^'^- sheet of water, the extent of which east and 



west was unknown, but in width it was about' sis miles; its depth 

 was upwards of two and a half feet, and after a few hours sunk to half 

 that quantity. ' Horsemen who crossed this tract the day after the 

 shock described a number of cones of sand' (from six to eight feet) ' ele- 

 vated above the water, the summits of which were emitting air and 

 water.'' The inundation here was doubtless connected with that at Sindree 

 fort, where it was of so much greater depth, that the houses within the 

 walls filled with water and one only of its four towers remained staud- 



* Even grass fodder for cattle ceased to be procurable at Lukput from this country 

 about the year 1804-5 (Sir G. Le G. Jacob's paper). 

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