CHAP. 3.] PHYSICAL ASPECT OP KUTCH. 13 



Three of the principal elevated regions run east and west. A wide 



belt of hills forming at first two parallel ranges, of 

 Hill ranges. _ '' J/ & ^ 



which the northern^ narrower and more lofty, is 

 called the Charwar range, and the other, the Dora hills, passes westward 

 from Anjar to beyond the centre of the province, whence it sends off a 

 chain* to the north-west carrying on the water shed of the country 

 from the Charwar range and terminating in a broad cluster of large but 

 not lofty elevations south of Lukput, at the western end of the state. 

 Another broken chain, united to this by mere isolated hills, overlooks 

 the Runn from near Lukput to a point about twenty-eight miles east- 

 ward of the capital, Bhooj ; and several minor groups and isolated 

 eminences, sometimes of commanding height, rise from the central plains. 

 Among these the bold tabular outlines of Wurrar, Drabwa and Jagora, 

 the lofty rounded summit of Nunnao and the peaks of Goudara, Vitonia, 

 Vichia, Kundwinga and Chundrua are conspicuous. 



The Wagir hills in the eastern part of the district are a broad 

 group, having a more or less east and west arran^e- 



Wagir hills. '^ 



ment, and many separated hills, the principal of 

 which is the isolated peak of Vittrooe. 



An east and west disconnected chain traverses the Eunn islands 

 of Chorar, Bela, Kurreer and the Putchum, in 



Eunn Island range. 



which last the most lofty summit of all Kutch 

 occurs at Putchum Peer, measuring by aneroid 1,437 feet above the 

 Runn. A smaller flanking range occupies the south of this island. 



None of the elevations of Kutch are very great, being generally 

 under 1,500 feet above the sea : Katrol, or Katrore hill, the summit of 

 the Charwar and Katrol range, rises 550 feet above the plain to the north. 

 Wurrar is 894 feet higher than the valley between it and the Juria hills, 

 the summit of which is 890 feet above the Runn; Nunnao is 770 feet 

 higher than the neighbouring plain; Dhenodhui' is 1,073 feet measured 



* Called the Abrassa ridge by General Sir G. Le G. Jacob. 



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