1 SINDE. 201.
2 from the shore. Westward of the Garrah estuary, and between
3 it and Kurrachee, the southern extremity of the Hala® or Pubb &Burnes, iit. 10. °
4 mountains approaches the shore, the point of Munoora, which forms
5 the southern shelter of the harbour of Kurrachee, being rocky;?7 = a Ba
6 but with the exception of this point, the coast itself is like that sina. Army, 78.
7 eastward, low 8 and alluvial, and so continues westward to Cape ® Horsburgh, 1.
8 Monze or Ras.Mooarree, which rises from the sea to a moderate : :
9 height. The sea of the coast is very shallow, so that, according
10 to Wood,? a vessel of 1,000 tons could scarcely come in sight of Aeon Sue
11 the Sindian coast ;! the soundings, however, in general decrease ' Cartess,3.
12 80 gradually and regularly, that in the fine season there is no
13 danger in approaching it. The shallowness of the sea appears
14 to be mainly owing to the enormous quantity of mud deposited by
15 the water of the Indus. A bank? extends all along the coast 71d. ibid,
16 from Kurrachee to Cutch, reaching from two or three miles to
17 five or six from land, and being in most places dry at low water.
18 The only shoal which projects to any considerable distance is the
19 Great Munnejah Bank, which has a hard, smooth bottom, and
20 which should be approached with much care by large vessels.
21 The tides’ are extremely irregular, both in direction and height, ® 1a. sia.
22 rising in the south-eastern part of the coast about four feet, and
23 among some of the great channels as much as twelve feet.4 The ‘ Burnes, ili. 241,
24 flow and ebb are exceedingly violent and rapid, sweeping over the
25 low lands, and retiring with a velocity and force not easily con-
26 ceived by those who have not witnessed them. The influence of
27 the tide is perceptible for seventy-five miles from the ocean, or
28 about twenty-five miles above Tatta. The® south-west monsoon § Id. ib.; Wood,
29 reaches the coast of Sinde, and though it does not bring much cies oo nia
30 rain, blows with extreme violence, rendering navigation perilous 4¢e. ofCaubul,1s1.
31 after the beginning of March. Of the eleven mouths of the
32 Indus, only two, the Hujamree* and Kookewarree, are navigable
33 in sea-going vessels from the sea to the main channel of the
34 river; and as on the bar of the former there are only thirteen 6 Carless, 4,
35 feet of water at full tide, on the latter only ten”? feet, while 714.8.
36 the sea breaks violently on them during the stormy season,
37 it is inevitable destruction for a ship then to attempt to
38 * According to the account of Kennedy, however, the Hujamree mouth Sind and Kaubooly
39 was closed in 1839 by one of those violent changes frequent in the shifting shoals #!. 220.
40 and channels of the Indug, ‘‘and has now no river communication with
41 Tatta, or junction with the main stream.”’