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found here, and are less strong and healthy in appearance than 

 those bred on the hills, we set out at midday on the 28th, 

 and as the direct route was unsafe for the camels, from the 

 ground having been so lately saturated with rain, we wound 

 round the town, and reached the sea beach, along which we 

 marched for some miles, until nearing the creek at the northern 

 extremity of the bay into which the Pooralee river empties 

 itself, we turned north, and keeping close to the edge of the 

 sand hills which border the mangrove swamp called " Gooroo- 

 Cherla-Kar-un" reached a pool of fresh water, where we halted. 

 churoo, 9 miles. This spot is named Churoo, and is merely a place 

 of encampment. A few herds of camels were feeding in the 

 cypress jungle, which covers the inlets from the swamp. Their 

 attendants where the only people we saw on the road. A short 

 distance before arriving at our ground, we passed the tomb of 

 " Shaik Ali, or Swamee," built on one of the low sandy ridges 

 which here extend inland as far as the eye can reach, covered 

 with stunted milk bushes and tufts of coarse grass. To its 

 right runs the road to Lyaree. The following morning we 

 crossed the ei Thura," a flat which extends for many miles be- 

 tween Lyaree and Shaik Karaj. Brushwood abounds on it, 

 and both cattle and goats find pasture on the grass which 

 grows there ; the few I saw however did not appear in good 

 condition. An open plain on our right, sprinkled with cypress 

 bushes, was pointed out as reaching to near Lyaree, but I could 

 not distinguish any signs of cultivation. Continuing a westerly 

 The Pooraiee River. course, we came to the Pooralee river, an insig- 

 nificant stream with a muddy bottom. It rises in hills north 

 of Beila, and is said always to have water in its bed, but the 

 cultivators of Lyaree raise embankments across it for the pur- 

 pose of irrigating their fields, so that unless after heavy rain 

 it cannot be called a running stream below that town. Beyond 

 it a gradual rise brought us to another range of sand hills, in 

 the midst of which we encamped near a small well of brackish 

 water. This is generally the first stage from Soumeanee, but 

 the " Truppa" being slippery for camels, where it is usually 

 crossed, we were obliged to make a circuit, which doubled 

 fiamb-b, 9 miles, the distance, to Dambo. This likewise is only 



