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tated with regard to supplies, or impeded by the rivers, canals, or 

 standing pools ; many of the former, from the state of their banks, 

 appear to be, for a longer or shorter period, the channels of rapid tor- 

 rents ; and the country in several places has the appearance of being 

 under water, or very swampy, during some time of the year. 



In addition to the unfavourable circumstances with regard to the 

 want of rain under which this route is at present seen, may be added 

 the evident want of exertion on the part of the inhabitants to put 

 the supplies which the country does afford, at the disposal of any part 

 of the British Army. 



(Signed) A. C. Peat, Captain, 



Bombay Engineers. 



Report on the Road from Sinde, from Subzul to Shikar poor. By 



Mr. Nock. 



1. Surwaee, the last stage in Bhawal Khan's country, is a small 

 village, in which is the tomb of Nawab Moosa Khan, direction N. E. 

 80°, distance eight miles from Subzul. kote, and the road leads through 

 slight jungle, a nulla about half way with a wooden bridge, and a 

 village, the frontier of Sinde. 



2. Subzul-kote is a pretty large place, having a good bazar, and 

 many wells, out of the town, of good water ; to the North, is the 

 dund or lake, which is fast drying up ; the spot chosen for the encamping 

 place, is among some ground broken by the plough, S. E. of the town, 

 in the neighbourhood of wells, and a small jungle, which can soon 

 be cleared. 



3. Oobowrah is about thirteen miles distant from Subzul, due W.; 

 the encamping ground lies N. E. and S. E., the same spot where the 

 Shah encamped on his way to Shikarpoor. There are three good wells 

 about the vicinity, known by a date tree near the lake, and one of 

 them undergoing repairs ; on the other side, in a grove of large tamarisk 

 trees, another well, and in a plantation, marked by a few plum trees, 

 (Ber,) one well independent of the wells in the village, and the nulla 



