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Mojanwaii) is a very large dhand with quite 8 feet of 

 water. It is diamond-shaped, about 1 mile in length and 

 halt' a mile at its widest. Owing to its depth and size, 

 it seldom becomes sufficiently concentrated to deposit 

 chaniho : it is the first dhand of those as yet considered 

 which contains too much water to yield chaniho, but we 

 shall find that there are many others in this class. It 

 did, however, yield about 10 maunds in 1012-13. Its 

 water had a specific gravity of 1-089, and contained 

 50-3 grams of Na 2 C0 3 per litre. 



(10) Dosewari is an oval-shaped dhand on the N.W. flank ot 



and close to the large Khariri dhand ; it is in fact part of 

 the Khariri basin, but separated by a narrow spit of low 

 sand-bank. It is about 200 by '80 yards in size. It was 

 dry at the time of my visit, but in other years had 

 yielded small quantities of 2nd grade chaniho. 



(11) Dheriun is a dhand lying about H miles south of Khariri. 



It was dry and had given no yield at the time of my 

 tour. I did not therefore visit it. 



(12) Kalarwari is half a mile south of Tir Nanga dhand. This 



is a small dhand, and was dry with no yield at the time 

 of my visit. 



(13) Virchora Sim, called Whichonaro (possibly a misprint 



for Whichowaro) in the Yazir's list, is a large dhand almost 

 divided into two by two promontories of sand which nearly 

 meet in the middle. This dhand never viekls chaniho 

 itself, but supplies are occasionally obtained from the 

 pools round its edges. It is inhabited by crocodile, which 

 are here probably in water as brackish as they can 

 stand. The specific gravity is 1-025; it contains 15-0 

 grams of Na 2 CO :} per litre, and 8-5 grams of NaCl per 

 litre. Na 2 S04 is present only in small quantity. 

 (11) Pharanwari Sim (Pharanwala in list, and Sim Pharewaree 

 in map) is a long narrow sim with probably about four 

 or five feet of water. The sim itself does not yield 

 chaniho, since the concentration is not sufficient, and 

 the dhand is not sufficiently flat-bottomed to evaporate 

 rapidly. At the south end there is a small pool isolated 

 from the main dhand. Here concentration takes place, 

 and a yield of chaniho amounting to about 200 maunds 



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