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5 lASTinr TUBES — CONTINUED.
6 DAMAUN in its most extended sense, comprehends all the
7 country belweeti tlie Salt range, the Solimauny mountains, the
8 Indus, and Sungur in Upper Sind. I have ahready. dispotied oi the
9 part of it which lies to the north of the Koorrum and Gombela, and
10 now prot^ed to the remainder. This may be di\ ided into three
11 parts. The plain of the Indus, generally inhabited 1)\ liduclies, and
12 called Muckelwaud * ; the country of the Murwuls j and the plains
13 and low hills (about the roots of the mountains) which (xtmtitute
14 Damaun proper.
15 Muckelwaud extends along the Indus for about one hundred and
16 twenty miles. Its mean breadth s irom twenty-five to thirty miles.
17 h. is ftpkinof hard smiocidi day, quite flat, bare of grass, but sprinkled
18 witli bmbeB about a fbot high, and still mofe tliinlj seattered with
19 ■epaiata tamafaaB of tamariAi and of the thorny shrub caOed m india
20 Kured; with here and there a tree of the sort called Jant, from fif-
21 teen to twenty feet high- The soil, when much trodden on, turns
22 hifto a very minute whitiih duat It seems to be composed of the
23 slime of the liver, which in smnmerinundatea this oountiyfbragEeal
24 exteiit;attfae same tune the moimtain streams, swdkd by the md^
25 anow, pour down and cover all the flats with water. It ia soldom ▼cry
26 deap, but it seema. to He long fiom the appearance of the ground*
27 * TIJh it • Bdodi* «r HindkM Mn^ Utile med, and vtktmm lo
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