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may have extended further — one long suhsequent to that when the 

 Runn was navigable, as obscurely indicated by tradition to have " been 

 at the beginning of the 14th century .'■" 



These traditions are, however, quite untrustworthy as to time, and 

 the fact of the Runn having been formerly submerged, rests upon much 

 better testimony, though the period at which it was permanently a sea 

 may have been indefinitely remote. 



According to Sir A. Burnes, the natives point out diiferent positions 

 said to have been harbours on the Runn at a time when the sea that 

 covered it had the name of Kiln. Nerona, a village about 20 miles north- 

 north-west of Bhooj (the capital), is one of these; Charee further west 

 another ; and " the people of the Putehum spoke of boats having been 

 wrecked on the hills of the island, and said that there were considerable 

 harbours near them called Dorut, Doh or Dohee and Phangwuro to the 

 westward of Putehum.^' Bitaro, a small place on the road to Sind 

 between Kutch and Allah Bund, is also said to have been a seaport, 

 and he (Sir A. B.) " could point out several others." 



On the Sind side of the Runn, Veego-Gud, the brick ruins of 

 which are still visible, was said to have been the principal seaport ; and 

 Vingur and Balliaree were likewise said to have been ports. Again, 

 Sir A. Burnes says — " numerous pieces of iron and ship nails were 

 thrown up at Phangwuro at the time of the great earthquake, and 

 similar things were subsequently found in the same neighbourhood when 

 digging tanks." Lieutenant Dodd says that Veerawow or Veeravow 

 in Parkur was " known to have been a port." 



At one spot on the northern shore of the Putehum, some traces of 

 this old sea have been recently found in a small patch of sub-recent 

 littoral concrete full of marine shells. This was clearly in sitzc resting 

 upon the local Jurassic rocks at a height of nearly 20 feet above the 

 Runn, but sloping towards it. 



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