1 32 MAG—MAH..
2 being a corruption of Magar Peer or Pir, ‘‘ the alligator’s saint.”
3 These thermal springs are situate amidst rocky and very barren
4 hills, and spring out of the bottom of a small fertile valley, thickly
5 wooded with date-trees and acacias, over which the white dome
6 of the shrine is visible. Adjacent to the shrine are a few highly
7 ornamented tombs, the architectural style of which resembles
8 *March through that of some English structures of the age of Elizabeth. Allen?
9 Sinde and Afg. 26. a ic 7
10 says, ‘‘ The devices were principally scroll and diamond work;
11 the carving, though not very bold, was elaborate in design and
12 neatly executed.” The principal spring issues from the rock on
13 which the shrine is built, and has a temperature of about 98°,
14 the water being perfectly clear, and of a sulphureous smell.
15 Another spring, about half a mile distant, has a temperature of
16 130°. The water, received into tanks, forms a grateful retreat
17 for the alligators. On occasion of a stranger’s visit, the fakirs
18 regale these animals with a carcase of a goat, and their struggles
19 and contests to secure the prey constitute a scene at once ludicrous
20 2 Wood, Oxus, 26. and disgusting.’ They are very tame, and never seck to injure
21 - human beings. It is remarkable that they are genuine alligators,
22 and totally distinct from the guryal, or long-snouted crocodile,
23 which abounds in the Indus, a short distance to the east. The
24 fakirs live in a few mud huts, the only human habitations in this
25 vicinity. Lat. 25° 2’, long. 67° 5’.
26 ponigatgain iii, MAGHRIBEE, in Sinde, a town situated on the Piniaree,
27 Belooch. 358; a branch of the Indus. Below the town a dam has been thrown
28 Gumes, Repo" across the Piniaree about fifty miles from its mouth. It is forty
29 Hyderabad, 17. feet broad, and of proportionable height, but the water in the swell
30 makes its way through numerous small openings to the channel
31 below, called the Goongra, which is navigable to the sea, dis-
32 charging itself by the Sir mouth. The Piniaree is also naviga-
33 ble from the town upwards to the Indus. The traffic is almost
34 exclusively in rice, which being produced abundantly in Sinde, is
35 exported down this channel to Cutch. Population 5,000. Lat.
36 24° 11’, long, 68° 17’.
37 Ms, Survey Map. MAHER PEER, in Sinde, a village on the middle route from
38 Roree to Hyderabad, and forty miles south-west of the former
39 town. Lat. 27° 21’, long. 68° 32’.
40 ELC. Ms, Doc. MAHOMED AGA, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the
41 route from Kabool to Shawl, twenty miles south of the former
42 town, in lat’ 34° 11’, long. 69°.