1 2 Notice of Wa-
2 then’s Sindhi
3 Grammar, in
4 Jour. As.
5 200 SINDE.
6 consider. that the name, both of the river and the country,
7 is derived from .the word Sindhi,?* synonymous with Hindi, as
8 the inhabitants from the first dawn of recorded knowledge have
9 Beng. tar oe principally been of the great Hindoo family. It is bounded on
10 3 Horsburgh, Ind.
11 Dir. i. 493; Pott.
12 Belooch, 251.
13 4 Carles, ones!
14 Rep. on the Ind
15 3; Wood, ue
16 lk
17 5 Oxus, 10.
18 the north by Beloochistan, Afghanistan, and Bhawlpoor, on the
19 east by Jessulmair and Marwar, on the south by Cutch and the
20 Indian Ocean, on the west by Beloochistan, and is situated be-
21 tween lat. 23° 32’—-28° 50’, and long. 66° 37’—71° 16’. It is
22 three hundred and eighty miles long from north to south, three
23 hundred miles in its greatest breadth from east to west, and con-
24 tains a surface of about sixty thousand square miles.t Its sea-
25 coast, washed by the Indian Ocean, extends a distance of one
26 hundred and fifty miles, in a north-west direction, from the
27 Koree or greatest mouth of the Indus (long deserted by the
28 stream), situate in lat. 28° 30’, long. 68° 25’, to Cape Monze,3
29 or Ras Mooarree, in lat. 24° 48’, long. 66° 38’. This whole
30 extent of coast, except the part intervening between Kur-
31 rachee and Cape Monze, which.are distant from each other about
32 fifteen miles, is very low, being merely a series of mud banks
33 ,, deposited by the Indus, or, in a few place, low sand-hills,4 blown
34 in from the sea-beach. With the exception of those few sand-
35 hills, ‘‘ the shore,” observes Carless, “is low and flat throughout,
36 and at high water partially overflowed to a considerable distance
37 inland. With the exception of a few spots covered with jungle,
38 it is entirely destitute of trees or shrubs, and nothing is seen for
39 many miles but a dreary swamp. Whenever this occurs, the
40 land is scarcely discernible two miles from the shore.’ Wood5
41 also observes—~‘‘ The coast line is submerged at spring tides, when
42 the delta of the Indus resembles a low champagne tract of verdure,
43 with tufts of mangrove dotted along its seaward edge.” Burnes,
44 too, states that the coast of Sinde is not distinguishable a league
45 parts of the world of great tracts denominated from rivers, as many states of
46 North America, departments of France, and circles of Germany.
47 * According to the native Sindian history, in the usual style of national
48 vanity—‘ Sindh is so called from Sindh, the brother of Hindh, the gon of
49 Noah, whose descendants for many generations ruled that country.’’—Pos-
50 tans, Extracts from Tohfat ul Kiram andthe Chach Nameh. (Transacts. of
51 As. Soc. of Bengal, 1838, 298 ; and 1841, 184.)
52 + This estimate is given from careful measurement on Walker’s excellent
53 wap of the north-west frontier. The estimate given by Burnes (iii, p. 212)
54 of 100,000 square miles ia unquestionably exaggerated. .