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2 the great western branch of the Indus, but now nearly deserted Indus, 2; Barnes,
3 by the stream, except during the inundation, and become, in con- si ceca
4 sequence, merely a salt-water creek. It is five hundred yards
5 wide at the mouth, is in the shallowest part there nine feet deep
6 at low-water, and eighteen feet at high-water spring-tides, and is
7 navigable for thirty miles for boats of twenty-five tons burthen,
8 The Pittee mouth is in lat. 24° 41’, long. 67° 8’.
9 PIWAR, in Afghanistan, a village situate in lat. 33°41’, long. bi Map of
10 70° 3’.
11 PODSHEH, in Kashmir, a village situate in lat. 34° 22’, long. map of Kaschmir.
12 74° 28’,
13 POGHUARA, in the Punjab, a small town on the route from Jacquemont,
14 Filor to Amritsir, and sixteen miles north-west of the former’place. pata
15 It is situate in the Doab of Julinder, in a fertile country, having
16 generally a soil of argillaceous loam. The principal inhabitants
17 are Hindoos, engaged in commercial pursuits, or in the cultivation
18 of the fine orchards and gardens which surround the town. Lat.
19 31° 15’, long. 75° 41’.
20 POKRUN, in Sinde, a halting-place on the route from Seb. E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
21 wan to Kurrachee, and forty-eight miles south of the former town.
22 It is situate on the river, or rather torrent, called, below the Dhur-
23 wal and still further downwards, Burran, but here, generally, the
24 river of Pokrun. ‘Though the current intermits for the greater
25 part of the year, there are generally deep pools of good water in
26 the bed. The road in this part of the route is very rocky and
27 broken, and forage and other supplies are scanty. Lat. 25° 48’,
28 long. 67° 50’.
29 POOLAJEE, in Beloochistan, a small town of Cutch Gun- E.1.¢. afs. Does;
30 dava, at the southern base of the mountains inclosing the valley Mase Kelst
31 of Kahun, and connecting the highlands of Hurrund and Dajel
32 with the Hala range. Here, in the beginning of May 1840, was
33 the rendezvous of a British force marching to garrison Kahun, and
34 thence subsequently, in the close of the following August, an ex-
35 pedition, under Major Clibborn, proceeded to relieve that post.
36 After circumstances beyond human control had caused a disas-
37 trous result to the attempt of Major Clibborn, he fell back on
38 Poolajee, with the loss of artillery, ammunition, stores of various
39 kinds, all the beasts of burthen allotted to the expedition, and one
40 hundred and seventy-nine men killed, ninety-two more being
41 wounded. A month afterwards, the garrison of Kahun, having