1 NAN—NAR. 73
2 NANGA PURBUT, or PARWUT.—See Diarmun.
3 NANUNDUR KOT, in the Punjab, a village situate on the
4 right bank of the river Ravee, in lat. 32° 5’, long. 74° 57’.
5 NAO DEH, in Afghanistan, a village situate on the left bank £.1.C. Ms. Doc.
6 of the river of Furrah. Lat. 32° 20’, long. 62° 2’.
7 NARANG, in Northern Afghanistan, a village situate on the E-I.C. Ms. Doc.
8 right bank of the river Kooner, twenty-six miles north-west of the
9 town of Bajour. Lat. 35° 20’, long. 71° 3’.
10 NAREH, in Sinde, a village on the route from Sehwan to E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
11 Larkhana, and fifty-three miles north of the former town. It is
12 of considerable size, with houses built of burned brick. Its situ-
13 ation isin a level alluvial country, about a mile from the right
14 bank of the Indus. Lat. 27° 7’, long. 68° 2’.
15 NARI, a river of Beloochistan, has its origin on the eastern Pott. Belooch.
16 slope of the Hala mountains, about lat. 30°, long. 68°, and hold- abort
17 ing a course, generally in a southerly direction, for about fifty miles, Aree
18 it is jomed near the village Eree, in lat. 29° 26’, long. 67° 58’, Jour. Evg. to
19 by the river Kauhee or Bolan. The united stream continues to Tee Ee
20 flow southwards, and is finally lost in the arid plain of Cutch
21 Gundava. When heavy rains fall it has a great body of water,
22 and it is said that, when remarkably swollen, it sometimes even
23 reaches the Indus. For many months in the year the stream
24 disappears, and water can then be obtained only by digging in
25 the bed, or from reservoirs made by excavation or draining.
26 It is, however, of the utmost importance, being, in this sultry
27 country, the only source from which water can be obtained for
28 domestic purposes, or for irrigation.
29 ‘ NARRA! (Eastern), in Sinde, a large branch of the Indus, se- } E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
30 parating from the main stream on the eastern side, a few miles w'g97 are”
31 77, 207; Mac-
32 above Roree. Taking a southerly course, it passes by the ruins Tudo on the
33 i Indus, in Jour.
34 of Alore, where it is crossed by a bridge, and thence continues Roy. As. Soc.1834,
35 to flow in the same direction until its water, in the dry season, is man
36 absorbed or evaporated in the desert of Eastern Sinde. In the
37 lower part of its course, about lat. 25° 50’, long. 69° 10’, it
38 throws off during inundation a branch to the south-westward,
39 bearing the name of Phuraun or Purani Deria, ‘‘ the ancient river,”
40 and then turning to the south-east, flows by the fort of Omer-
41 cote. Lower down it joins the united stream of the Purana and
42 the Goonee or Fulailee, and falls into the sea by the Koree mouth,
43 after a course of nearly four hundred miles. During the low