1 PHO—PIN. 108
2 PHOOLERA, in Bhawlpoor, a town in the desert, close to the Masson, Bal. afg.
3 Bikaneer frontier. It has a good bazaar, but not much commerce. ence
4 There is a fort with very high walls, surmounted by fine battle-
5 ments and surrounded by a good trench, but all in great decay.
6 The place has an antique but striking and pleasing appearance-
7 On the north side of the town is an extensive piece of water.
8 Lat. 29° 11’, long, 73° 4’.
9 PHOR RIVER, in Beloochistan, a small stream rising in the ip Ms. Doe.;
10 hills east of Hinglaj, and, after a course of about twenty miles, geet
11 falling into the Arabian Sea in lat. 25° 23’, long. 65° 51’. Its eee ae:
12 channel is fringed with a tamarisk jungle, and though the current
13 intermits for a great part of the year, water may always be ob-~
14 tained by digging in its bed.
15 PHULUDA, in Sinde, a village ‘on the route from Subzul- 21-C. Me. Doc.
16 cote to Shikarpoor, and twenty miles east of the latter town. It
17 is situate on the northern edge of an island in the Indus, at the
18 ferry between Amil Got and Azeerpoor. Lat. 27° 52’, long.
19 69° 1’,
20 PHUMARA, in Sinde, a village situate on the route from E.1.c. Ms. Doc,
21 Bukkur to Oomercote, near the right bank of the eastern Narra,
22 in lat. 27° 5’, long. 69° 4’.
23 PHURAUN, a minor branch of the Indus. — See Narra»
24 Eastern.
25 PHURRAH, in Beloochistan, a village in the province of Lus watker’s Map of
26 or Lussa. Lat. 25° 38’, long. 66° 11’. eer
27 PIND DADUN KHAN,’ in the Punjab, a town lying near ! Burnes’ Bokb.
28 the right or western bank of the Jailum, from which it is sepa-'
29 rated by a narrow verdant plain. It consists of three small col-
30 lections of houses, situate close to each other and about four
31 miles from the river. The houses are built of mud, with a frame-
32 work of deodar or cedar, the materials for which are floated
33 down the river from the mountains to the north. Pind Dadun
34 is a short distance south of the Salt range,*? which rising ° Eiph. 8.
35 boldly from the right bank of the Jailum, stretches far into
36 Afghanistan. Salt is raised in the vicinity for the supply of a
37 great part of the Punjab. The formation of the rock contain-
38 ing the salt is sandstone, in strata vertical, or nearly 80; the
39 layers of salt, about eighteen inches in thickness,t conform to
40 * See Salt Range.
41 + According to Burnes,' ‘‘ none of the layers exceed a foot and half in ' Bokh. i. 58.