1 158 ROO—ROR.
2 met here on an extreme cold winter’s night, the camels of one of
3 them being laden with madder, and of the other with indigo—
4 which two dyes are severally called in the Belooche language
5 roden and jo—the merchant whose camels bore the latter ex-
6 changed some of that valuable article, to a great disadvantage, for
7 a quantity of the former, with which he made a fire, and thereby
8 preserved his life; while his more parsimonious fellow-sufferer
9 would not apply the smallest particle of his remaining merchan-
10 dize to the same purpose, and perished from cold.” Roodinjo is
11 in lat. 28° 40’, long. 66° 22’.
12 ROOKENWALA, in the Punjab, a village on the route from
13 Ferozpoor to Mooltan, and sixty miles south-west of the former
14 town. Lat. 30° 37’, long. 73° 45’.
15 ROOKUN, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the right
16 bank of the Indus, in lat. 33° 4’, long. 71° 44’.
17 ROOKUNPOOR, in Bhawlpoor, a village situate on the left
18 bank of the Indus, in lat. 28°59’, long. 70° 24’.
19 ROOMRA RIVER, or rather torrent, in Beloochistan, has
20 its source in some hills about thirty miles inland, and flowing in
21 a southerly direction, falls into the Arabian Sea, in lat. 25° 20’,
22 long. 63° 57’,
23 ROREE, in Sinde, a village on the route from Sehwan to
24 Kurrachee, and eleven miles and a half south-west of the former
25 town. It is situate in a plain cultivated in several parts, and
26 intersected by a watercourse, at all times yielding a good supply.
27 Water is also to be obtained from three wells in the village.
28 Lat. 26° 13’, long. 67° 50’.
29 ROREE, or LOHUREE! (the ancient Lohurkot), in Sinde,
30 _& town situate on the eastern bank of the Indus, on a rocky emi-
31 Macmurdo, Jour. nence of limestone, interspersed with flint. This is one of those
32 hills constituting a low range, of recent formation, stretching
33 * Havelock, i. 118; from Cutch Gundava ? into Upper Sinde, and continued there by
34 numerous knojls and peaks, sometimes nearly isolated, through
35 part of which the Indus finds its way at Roree. The rocky site
36 of Roree is terminated abruptly on the western side by a precipice
37 of forty feet high, rising from the beach of the Indus, which, in
38 the Indus, in ApP- inundation, attains a height of about sixteen feet above its lowest
39 level. Westmacott is of opinion that it formerly must have risen
40 to fifty feet, washing the brow of the eminence on which Roree
41 Sindian Anny, 79. stands, and that then the neighbouring rocky islets in the Indus