320 Capt. Grant on the Geology of Cutch. 



Bund. It would therefore appear that this portion could not have been so 

 much sunk as that around Sindree, and between it and Luckput. 



I was also assured that pieces of iron and ship-nails have been thrown up 

 from fissures in the Runn ; and Capt. McMurdo* mentions a boat which had 

 been buried under 15 feet of alluvium^ having become exposed in a mud- 

 bank, near the villao^e of Wuwania, on the Kattywar side of the Runn, or 

 where it joins the Gulf of Cutch. 



The number of places still pointed out as Bunders, or quays, together with 

 the large stones formerly used as anchors, one of which still lies on a small 

 elevation on the Runn, not far from the Puchum Island, and the confident 

 assertion of all the inhabitants on its coast, tend to confirm the opinion that 

 the district must once have been covered by a navigable body of water. 



Some parts of the shores have precisely the appearance of having been re- 

 cently deserted by the sea. This is particularly the case near the village of 

 Charee, which is separated from the Runn by a low range of hills. To the 

 northward of this range is an inlet, about one mile and a half in breadth, and 

 it looks precisely like a small creek or bay from which the tide has just ebbed. 

 Its surface is composed of smooth, whitish clay, with numerous scattered gravel 

 banks, the ends of which have been worn round, and the sides present perpen- 

 dicular or overhanging banks. Several masses of crystalline sandstone also 

 rise suddenly out of the bed ; and some of them consist of immense fragments, 

 which look as if they had been piled one on the other, and have a strange 

 effect from a short distance. Beyond the inlet is another range of hills of the 

 same description, but it is more broken and confused than any other in the 

 country. In some places, the upper stratum of hard rock has been thrown into 

 a position like the roof of a house ; in others, it precisely resembles a ruined 

 fort with towers on a hill ; but the greater part of the stratum is a confused 

 assemblage of huge fragments of rock. Northward of this range, and sepa- 

 rated from it by a narrow belt of the Runn, is a steep conical hill, called Keera, 

 600 or 700 feet in height, consisting partly of the same materials as the others, 

 and partly of basalt ; and it appears to have been formed in a similar manner 

 to the hill called Ungur-soorud, before described, and others of that cjass. It 

 is also more than probable, that the peculiar, fractured appearance of all the 

 ranges is due to the same cause acting at the same period. 



Supposing the bed of the Runn to have been raised by a series of violent 

 movements, such as must have upheaved the Keera, and its surface to have 



* Extract from Captain McMurdo's MS. memoir on Kattywar, in Captain Burnes' Travels in 

 Bokhara, vol. iii. p. 329, note. 



