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2 498 LOWEK SIND.
3 forei of the chaoa Yet there are some pazts of Stnd to which these
4 obMrvsdons do not apptf ; some places in the neighbourhood of the
5 river, or its branches, are cultivated, and the soil there dii^lays its
6 natural fecundity, in bringing forth most of the productions of India ;
7 and the whole district of Chaudookee, enclosed between the Indus
8 and a remarkable branch of it, is bifrhly c^!lti^-atcd, and eminently
9 productive. Thiis branch of the Lulus runs out to the west, and.
10 after spreading over a wide tract, which at dilK rcnt sea.Hous. cither
11 a marsli or a lake, it a^rain joins the main stream seventy miles be-
12 low the place of its sepatalioii.
13 Sind is a bare country ; the few tre^ it prodiu es are of the kinds
14 common in India. It has no remarkable animals, but the number
15 o£> camek which em fisd in it» ii worthy of ,ieiiiuk. They are used
16 to di»w water, to tnm iiiilb» ftc. but the goods of 8uid ore mudi
17 traiuported by water oyrriage* nor ie that much employed, Ihr a few
18 flat bottomed boata are sndiraent for the commerce of thur imporer-
19 iAed cfMUitKj.
20 The capital of Smd it Hyderabad, a large fortified town, sitmled
21 onarockyhiU* I should ooijeotDTe it to oontam about' e^ht^tiioai-
22 sand inhabitants.
23 Tatta, die ancient Pattala, which was once a flourishing commercial
24 town, is now greatly declined, but atili contaiiis about fifteen thousand
25 inhabitants.
26 Much of the population of tho^^e towns is Hindoo; but the bulk
27 of that of the counirv. is rinii[ioseil of IVlahommethm^.
28 At (he time when Sind tell under the A^haun dommions, it was
29 governed by a ])rince of the tribe of Calhora, which I believe belongs
30 to the south of Persia. Abduuhiubbce, tlie last prince of this race,
31 disgusted all his subjects by his tyranny and bad government, and
32 embfoiled hhnself partaculsriy with the Talpoorees, a tribe which
33 finrmed the princip^ part of the military population of Mb countiy*
34 The chiift of tibat tr^ st Icangdi entesied mi a^oosph-acy to d^Kise
35 Um I but their piietioeB became known to Abdoobrahbefik who put
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