1840.] 



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could not have been so much sunk as that around Siiidree, 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 expos- 

 ed in a mud-bank, near the village 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 R.unn, 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 

 recently deserted by the sea. This is particularly the case near the vil- 

 lage of Charee, which i.s 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 perpendicular 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 separated 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 class. 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 



• Extract from Captain McMurdo's MS. memoir on Katty war, ia ;Captaia Barnes* 

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



