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2 tory explanation of that which is so unusual and has been so
3 2 Jour. Roy. As. little considered. Prinsep? advances the opinion, that ‘‘the
4 Soc. Beng. 1845, .
5 p. 82. effect is produced merely by a reduplication of impulse setting air
6 in vibration in a focus ofecho.” Reg Rowan is in lat. 35°, long.
7 69° 10’.
8 E.1.C, Ms. Doc. REJLA, in Sinde, a village situate on the right bank of the
9 Indus, five miles west of the city of Hyderabad. Lat. 25° 23’,
10 long. 68° 18’.
11 ELC. Ms. Doc. REMMUK, in Afghanistan, a village of the Daman, about
12 five miles from the right bank of the Indus. Lat. 31°21’, long.
13 70° 50’.
14 E.LC. Ms. Doc. RETTA SOOLTAN, in the Punjab, a village eight miles east
15 ‘of the town of Ramnuggur, and on the road from thence to Va-
16 zeerabad. Lat. 32° 24’, long. 73° 45’.
17 Carless, Official
18 Men ot etic: RICHEL, in Sinde, a mouth of the Buggaur, or great western
19 2; Burnes,Bokh, branch of the Indus. Though now nearly filled up, it was at a
20 M234 former period one of the principal mouths of that river, and being
21 frequented by shipping, was marked out by a munorah, or minaret,
22 now fallen. In consequence of this distinction, the spot still
23 bears the name Munorah. Lat. 24° 10’, long. 67° 22’,
24 the summit, about six hundred feet, at an angle of about 40° with the hori-
25 zon. This is encircled, or rather semicircled, if the term is allowable, by a
26 ridge of sandstone rocks, rising up in the pointed pinnacle, and presenting
27 little surface adapted for forming an echo. It is remarkable that there are
28 several other slopes similar to this, but the sounding or rumbling, as it has
29 been called, is confined to this alone. We dismounted from our camels, and
30 remained at the base while a Bedouin scrambled up. We did not hear the
31 sound until he had attained a considerable height. The sound then began
32 rolling down, and it commenced in a strain resembling the first faint notes of
33 an Aolian harp, or the fingers wetted and drawn over glass, increasing in
34 loudness ag the sand reached the base, when it was almost equal to thunder.
35 It caused the rock on which we were seated to vibrate, and our frightened
36 camels (animals, you know, not easily alarmed) to start off. I was perfectly
37 astonished, as was the rest of the party. I had visited it before in the winter
38 months, but the sound was then so faint as to be barely evident; but now the
39 scorching heat of the sun had dried the sand, and permitted it to roll down
40 in large quantities. I cannot now form the most remote conjecture as to the
41 cause of it. We must not, I find, now refer it to the sand falling into a
42 hollow: that might produce a sound, but could never cause the prolonged
43 vibrations, as it were, of some huge harp-string. I shall not venture on any
44 speculation, but having carefully noted the facts, I shall lay them, on my
45 arrival in England, before some wiser head than my own, and sce if he can
46 make any thing out of them.”