1 LUK. 27
2 With the Jutteel, the Keertar, the Pubb, and some other ranges
3 less known, the Lukkee contributes to give character to the
4 singularly wild tract constituting the western part, of Sinde,
5 extending between Beloochistan and the alluvial tract on the
6 Indus, and also between the desert of Shikarpore and Kur-
7 rachee. The Lukkee is the most eastern of these ranges, and runs
8 from the Jutteel! south-eastward, towards the high lands opposite | De La Hoste,
9 Hyderabad, being known in different parts by the various appel- pee
10 lations of the Eeree Lukkee, Daran Lukkee, and Hallar Lukkee, $74 Kurraches, in
11 These mountains are in general of recent formation, containing a 1840, p.811.
12 vast profusion of marine exuvie. ‘The organic remains of
13 former ages,” observes Burnes,? “ are innumerable ; the asteroid, * Pers. Narr. 40;
14 the cockle, the oyster, the nummulite, and almost all kinds of sea- iano ato;
15 shells, may be collected on the Lukkee range.” Huge fissures, $f Xbyrpeon im
16 apparently produced by earthquakes, traverse this range, which, 180, p. 1208.
17 in the frequent occurrence of hot springs and sulphureous ex-
18 halations, exhibit signs of volcanic action. Some parts appear
19 to be of more ancient formation, as they produce lead, antimony,
20 and copper. The elevation of the highest part of this dreary
21 and sterile range is estimated at from 1,200 to 2,000 fect., Be-
22 tween the town of Lukkee and that of Sehwan, the mountain has
23 a nearly perpendicular face, about six hundred feet high towards
24 the Indus, between which and the precipice, there was at one time
25 a road, though in some places so narrow, that only a single camel
26 could pass at a time. In 1839, this defile was washed away
27 by the turbulent river, which now sweeps along,the base of
28 the cliff. The length of the Lukkee range is about fifty miles, ° Kennedy, ti.
29 Lat. 25° 30’, long. 67° 50’. pote roae
30 LUKKEE, NORTHERN, in Sinde, a large town in ruins, on E.1.C. Ms. Doe. ;
31 the route from Shikarpore to Lukkur, and twelve miles south- Sad aiee a
32 east of the former place. Under the Durani sway, it was wealthy
33 and populous, but since it passed into the power of the Ameers
34 of Sinde, it has fallen into utter decay. It has now scarcely
35 an inhabitant, and as its abandonment has been recent and
36 sudden, the appearance is singular, the houses being entire and
37 habitable, yet untenanted, or affording shelter only to a few ma-
38 rauders. In the time of its prosperity, it yielded an annual
39 revenue of a hundred thousand rupees. It is ten miles from the
40 right bank of the Indus. Lat. 27° 48’, long. 68° 46’. Another