CHAP. 2.] THE nvws. 17 



In Ktitc/i Selections (p. 6) it is stated that the whole of the 

 Runn ' is frequently under waterj when a passage 



Water on the Kunn. - i , j r, n 



across it is a work oi great labor, and oiten oi 

 considerable danger ; still, however, people continue to cross, though occa- 

 sionally, if overtaken by a fall of rain, they are necessitated to remain 

 there for a day or two^ till the atmosphere clears and the direction in 

 which to proceed can be ascertained.' Not unfrequently deaths occur 

 from exposure, while to attempt to proceed without the means of guid- 

 ing one's self woidd be, except with such people as have the organ of 

 locality strongly developed, hopeless. Even in the dry season people 

 occasionally lose their road and die from want of water, &c. 



The water which iloods the Eunn is partly brought down by the 

 Bunnass and Loonee rivers, partly furnished by the small rivers of 

 Kutch, while some is- said to overflow it from the sea ; this being raised 

 in the Gulf of Kutch and the old mouth of the Koree river near Lukput 

 by the prevalence of south-west winds. 



Inspection of the coast at the western extremity of the province 

 shows that this is to some extent the ease. As in other gulfs, the tide 

 rises higher the farther it enters that of Kutch, and a combination of tidal 

 wave and south-west wind would doubtless do much towards- either flooding 

 the Runn, or preventing the escape of the pent up waters which reach it 

 from the land. In such a case the strong current which would flow, when 

 Escape of the water the' pressure of the wind became- less or between 



from the Eunn. ^j^^^^ ^^.^^ ^-^^ ^^^^^ ^.^.j^^ ^g. ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ 



the deepening of the creeks and removal of the land' noticed at the head of 

 the gulf ; but sufficient evidence on the point has not been collected to- 

 enable sound inferences to be drawn, nor is it so closely connected with the 

 subject of this report as to render the discussion of imperfect data desirable. 



The depth of water and the time during which it rests upon the Runn 

 necessarily vary with the season and the slight but hardly perceptible 



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