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Ch. XXVIIL] 



JXEVATION OF THE ULLxUI BUND. 



101 



before mentioned wliicli caused tlie grounds around Sindree 

 to be flooded. The range of tliis elevation extends from 

 Puclium Island towards Gliaree ; its breadth from north to 

 south is conjectured to be in some parts sixteen miles, and its 

 greatest ascertained height above the original level of the 

 delta is 10 feet,— an elevation which appears to the eye to 

 be very uniform throughout. • 



For several years after the convulsion of 1819, the course 

 of the Indus was very unsettled, and at length, in 1826, the 

 river threw a vast body of water into its eastern arm, that 

 called the Phurraun, above Sindree ; and forcing its way in 

 a more direct course to the sea, burst through all the artificial 

 dams which had been thrown across its channel, and at length 

 cut right through the 'UUah Bund,' whereby a natural section 

 was obtained. In the perpendicular cliffs thus laid open Sir 

 A. Burnes found that the uioraised lands consisted of clay 

 filled with shells. The new channel of the river where it 

 intersected the ' bund ' was 18 feet deep, and 40 yards in 

 width; but in 1828 the channel was still farther enlarged. 

 The Indus, when it first opened this new passage, threw 



mere 



Sindree, that it became fresh for many months ; but it had 

 recovered its saltness in 1828, when the supply of river-water 



mor 



in consequence, as tlie natives suggested to Sir A. Burnes, of 

 the saline particles witli wliicli tlie ' Eunn of Cutch ' is im- 

 pregnated. 



In 1828 Sir A. Burnes went in a boat to the ruins of 



Sindree, Avliere a single remaining tower was seen in the 

 midst of a wide expanse of sea. The tops of the ruined 

 walls still rose 2 or 3 feet above the level of the water ; and 

 standing on one of these, he could behold nothing in the 

 horizon but water, except in one direction, where a blue 

 streak of land to the north indicated the Ullah Bund, This 

 scene presents to the imagination a lively picture of the re- 

 volutions now in progress on the earth — a waste of waters 

 where a few years before all was land, and the only land 

 visible consisting of ground uplifted by a recent earthquake. 

 Ten years after the visit of Sir A. Burnes above alluded to, 



