1 36 MAN.
2 47; Leech, Rep. the Narra, a branch proceeding from the Indus, on the western
3 on the Sindian
4 Army, 68; side. The Narra flows into the lake on the north, the redundant
5 caer Af. water being discharged on the south-east by the river Arul, which
6 es Bokh. has a course of about twelve miles, and, flowing by Sehwan,
7 falls into the Indus about four miles below that town. The lake
8 is nearly of a circular form when the water is low, and is then about
9 ten miles in diameter. During the inundation, it expands so as
10 to be twenty miles long, the breadth remaining much as before.
11 The space left uncovered by the receding water is sown with
12 grain, especially wheat, which yields very heavy crops. Though
13 shallow at the sides, the lake has a considerable depth of water
14 in the middle, and so great is the abundance of fine fish, ac-
15 cording to Burnes, that a thousand boats are employed in the
16 fishery. They are taken by spearing, the great quantity of
17 weeds preventing the employment of nets. In the season when
18 2 Westmacott, the lotus is in blossom,” the lake presents a very beautiful appear-
19 fee. of KiyrPOF ance, as its surface, farther than the eye can reach, is covered
20 1840, p. 1207. with an unbroken succession of bloom and leaves. Lat. 26° 15’,
21 long. 67° 40’,
22 eect S Afg. MANGA, in the Punjab, a small town on the left or east bank
23 of the Ravee. Lat. 31° 17’, long. 73° 46’.
24 E.I.C. Ms, Doc. MANGEEGURA, in Afghanistan, a village of the Daman,
25 close to the route from Ghuznee to Dera Ismael Khan, and fifty
26 miles north-west of the latter town. It is situate on the Gomul
27 river. Lat. 32° 3’, long. 70° 10’.
28 MANGEEGURD.—See Mascurra.
29 E.LC. Ms. Doe. MANIHALA, in the Punjab, a village situate about eleven
30 miles south-east of Lahore, on the road to Loodianah. Lat. 31°
31 35’, long. 74° 27’,
32 MANIKYALA, in the Punjab, a village remarkable on
33 account of an antique monument, or tope (as such objects are
34 called by the natives), of great dimensions, said by the people
35 of the neighbourhood to have been built by a prince of the name
36 } Moorer. it. 811; of Manik.!* According to Elphinstone,? the height from the
37 : ata as, summit of the artificial mound on which the tope is situated to
38 Soe. 1834, 557 the summit of the tope itself, is about seventy feet, and the cir-
39 urt, on the
40 Topes of Mani- cumference is one hundred and fifty paces; but Court states
41 Tai Ariong the height to be eighty feet, and the circumference from three
42 Antiqua, $8. hundred and ten to three hundred and twenty feet. There
43 * According to Vigne (ii. 190), it is Muni-Kyala, ‘‘ the city of rubies.””