8 WYNNE : GEOLOGY OF KDTCH. [PAET I. 



Captain MacMurdo's account of the earthquake of 1819 is inter- 

 esting, hut some of its statements regardinsr clouds 



MacMurdo. _ . 



of dust seen to arise from the hUl tops, the 



hursting forth of fire and smoke, and ejection of a fire ball, are sufficiently 



peculiar to excite doubt as to the accuracy of his informants, particularly 



as the precise localities are not referred to, and nothing like a recently 



active volcano has been found in the whole province. His description 



of the changes of level which succeeded the earthquake coincide with 



later observations by Sir A. Burnes. 



The memoir by the latter ofiicer '^on the eastern branch of the 



Indus and the Runn of Kutch,''^ published at the 



Burnes. 



end of the third volume of his travels into 



Bokhara, and also by the Royal Asiatic Society of London, describes the 



country and its alterations with considerable detail from personal 



observation. The native traditions regarding the Runn are given, and 



also some posthumous notes by Captain MacMurdo agreeing with the 



views of the author as to its having been an inland sea from which the 



water had receded ; and the memoir concludes with a note on Sindree 



village and neighbourhood (since submerged) written by Captain R. M. 



Grindlay in the year 1808. A view of the fort of Sindree from a 



sketch by that officer accompanies the memoir. This view was afterwards 



copied in Lyell's Principles of Geology. 



The notice of the earthquake of Kutch and elevation of the Allah 



Bund in Sir C. Lyell's " Principles," chap. 28, 10th 

 Lyell. 



Edit., omits nothing of importance, and several 



particulars are stated in a foot note to have been obtained from personal 



communication with Sir A. Burnes. A small map of the district and 



adjacent countries and two views of the fort of Sindree are given, one of 



which is taken from that by Captain Grindlay. 



Of the publications previously enumerated. Colonel Grant's is 

 one of the most importautj dealing as it does with the geology of the 

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