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stationary. Again, an earthquake that occurred in 1819, on 
the delta of the Indus, was followed by very extraordinary 
and permanent changes in the levels of the adjacent district ; 
the eastern channel of that river bounding the province of 
Cutch, suddenly deepening at Luckput from one foot to 
eighteen feet, so as to render it navigable, and at the same time 
creating a large inland lake, whilst Sindree, above Luckput, 
together with its fort, gradually sank below the newly-created 
waters, until its angle towers alone appeared above their 
surface ; but in exchange for this depression, an elevation fifty 
miles long appeared rising from a previously flat plain, at 
a distance of about five miles from Sindree, which the inhabi- 
tants very appropriately termed " Ullah Bund," or mound 
of God. Perhaps, however, the most striking modern 
illustration of what has once taken place in many portions 
of England, may at this time be witnessed in the United 
States. In 1811, the valley reaching from the mouth of the 
Ohio, to that of the St. Francis (300 miles long), was con- 
vulsed, after which several new lakes were formed, such as 
Obion in Tenessee, twenty miles in length, and another near 
New Madrid, about ten miles west of the Mississippi in Mis- 
souri, termed " the sunk country." This is seventy or eighty 
miles long, and thirty wide, and from its placid surface rise 
the trunks of innumerable semi-submerged trees, all dead, 
and whitening in the wind previous to the final plunge they 
must all shortly make into that deadly element below, 
wherein so many of their brothers have already sunk 
before them. 
It may be remarked, however, that in these instances, 
volcanic agency was the cause of the subsidences spoken of, 
whereas no signs of such a power exist in the lowlands of 
Lincolnshire or on its coast. But neither are they to be 
found in that of the American sunk country, nor do earth- 
quakes usually leave any direct evidences of their mighty 
