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2 of the Indus, is one thousand one hundred yards wide ; the Hu-
3 jamree, until lately next in importance, five hundred; the
4 Pittee,”? five hundred at low water—at other times between 7 Id. iii. 233.
5 eight and nine hundred yards. The Koree mouth is the most’
6 eastern, forming the boundary of Sinde towards Cutch. It has
7 long been deserted by the stream, except in very great inunda-
8 tions, when sometimes the Poorana ® and Fulailee branches pour ® td. itt. 288.
9 their waters into it. Burnes states its breadth at Cotasir, twenty
10 miles from the sea, to be seven miles, and that it increases, pro-
11 ceeding downward, until neither shore can be seen. He however
12 adds, very justly, that it is nothing more than an arm of the
13 sea.*
14 The base or seaward line of the delta of the Indus measures,
15 from the Garrah mouth, in lat. 24° 43’, long. 67° 9’, to the
16 Sir mouth, in lat. 23° 35’, long. 68° L5’, about one hundred and
17 twenty-five miles.® If it be regarded as having the shape of a tri- ° Id. ili, 250-31.
18 angle, to which it in some degree approximates, the perpendicular
19 Measured from the sea-shore to the vertex, near Tatta, where the
20 great branches of the Indus—the Sata, or eastern, the Buggaur,
21 or western—divaricate, is about fifty miles, and its surface is
22 about three thousand square miles; but as the river has in
23 * This statement is probably referred to by Zimmerman (Geographische
24 Analyse der Karte von Inner-Asien), s. 115, where he states the breadth of
25 “eine Indus-Mundung” at twelve miles, and quotes Arrian, Burnes, and
26 Carless, without giving any exact reference, an inconvenient practice, and which
27 on this occasion tends to implicate the last-mentioned authority, generally
28 highly accurate and judicioug, in what cannot be regarded otherwise than as a
29 gross exaggeration. Pottinger’ states, the western branch, or Buggaur, falling ! 300.
30 into the sea at lat. 24° 8', and consequently at the point corresponding with
31 the actual position of the Khedjwarree mouth, to have a breadth of nine miles
32 at Darajce and of twelve miles at its mouth, and ths error has been copied
33 into a vast number of elaborate and expensive maps from that prefixed to his
34 account of Beloochistan. As if this were not sufficient, Kennedy? states that ? 4. 71.
35 Pottinger informed him that the breadth was upwards of twenty miles!
36 When the British army forded this branch in 1838, during the low season,
37 it was fifty yards wide and two feet and a half deep; and Burnes,° in 1830, 3441, 34.
38 found it two hundred yards wide near Meerpoor. Pottinger, indeed, furnishes
39 an apology for the more extravagant dimensions, in declaring that they were
40 ‘* from the best native information I could procure.”’ It has been suggested
41 that a great change has taken'place in the dimensions of that part of the river
42 since Pottinger wrote, but in various charts of the coast given by Dalrymple,
43 there are no such vast openings as those in question.