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page 302), then, changing from the direction of sonth-sonth-west more 
westwards, it passes north of Jagan, between Shikar-pur and Jacob-abad, 
and finally reaches the Sind Hollow of Europeans, presently to be 
noticed, near KhairO Garhi—the “ Khairagari,” “ Khairo Garin,” and 
“ Khyrah Gurhee,” of as many different maps. This ancient channel 
was, in comparatively recent times, utilized for what became known 
as the Began Wa-hah, or Canal, the largest in Siro or Upper Sind. In 
still more recent times another channel appears to have branched off 
from near Ghaus-pur, above mentioned, more to the southward and 
westward, which passed near Lar-kanah, or Lar-kano as the Sindis call 
it, and from thence made a bend more directly south, passing near 
Khandiaro, and a few miles east of Noli-Shahrah or Noh-Sharp (the 
“ Nowshera” of the maps), which leaving Siw-istan, the modern Sihwan, 
some sixteen miles or thereabouts on the west, united with the old channel 
of the river called the Kunbh, which intervened between Siw-istan and 
the Mihran of Sind when Muhammad, the son of Kasim, marched from 
Nirun to attack Bahman-abad, as related at page 232. This old 
channel can be traced from the existing mounds and hollows as far 
down as about eight miles east of Lakhhi, near which the rise of the 
country towards the hills on the west turned it aside, on which it took a 
more south-easterly course towards Halah (the “Halla” of the maps), 
passing between it and Shadad-pur towards its former place of junction 
with the Mihran of Sind, Hakra, Waliindah, or Sind-Sagar, some distance 
south of Mansuriyah and Bahman-abad. I may add that the whole of 
Siro, or Upper Sind, and Wicholo or Middle Sind, is so cutup with dhands 
or beds of lakes, and puranahs, buddhs, dhoros, or deserted channels, 
many of which have now been utilized as canals, as to show, as previously 
noticed, that there is scarcely any part of this vast alluvial tract, over 
which in the course of ages, the Ab-i-Sind or Indus has not flowed at 
some time or other, and the Mihran of Sind, Hakra, or Wahindah also, 
but to a much less degree. 
After some further changes in Siro or Upper Sind, another channel 
appears to have branched off from the main stream, which ran in a more 
southerly direction from the first, towards Lar-kanah, constituting what 
is called in our maps “the Western Nara,” and “ Narra,” and which 
channel is still open. 
I now come to the most important of the channels, and the oldest 
of which we have any record, which branched off between Kin Kot and 
Kashmur in a westerly direction, passing between six and seven miles 
north of Kumbri, before mentioned, then within two miles south of 
“ Sanri ” and “ Sundree ” of the maps, then more towards the north 
towards the fort of Dil-Murad* to within seven miles of Uchohh (this 
