1 2 Leech, Rep. on
2 the Sind. Army,
3 77,
4 Burnes, iff, 268 ;
5 Outram, 46, 475
6 Masson, i, 461;
7 Kennedy, i. 176;
8 Westmacott, in
9 Jour. As. Soc.
10 1840, p. 1204.
11 E.1.C. Ms. Doc. ;
12 Pott. Belooch.
13 Map.
14 ! Forster, 1. 346.
15 74 NAR—NAT. |
16 season of the Indus it ceases to be a stream, but when the inun-
17 dation is at its height, it generally carries a very large body of
18 water, In 1826 it overspread the desert to a great extent,? swept
19 away part of the fortress of Omercote, though ninety miles from
20 the main channel of the Indus, and forced its wuy to the sea by
21 the riunn of Cutch, working for itself a passage through the Ulah-
22 bund, a mound thrown up across its channel by the great earth-
23 quake of 1819.
24 NARRA (Western), in Sinde, a great and important branch of
25 the Indus. It separates from the western side of the river about
26 twenty-five miles below Sukkur, in lat, 27° 40’, long. 68° 34’,
27 and takes a southerly course, in a direction in a great measure
28 parallel to the main stream. At its extremity, in lat. 26° 30’,
29 long. 67° 45’, it expands into lake Manchar. . From the south-
30 eastern part of this lake, the Aru], a navigable stream, flows, and
31 discharges its water into the Indus. The direct distance from the
32 place where the Narra divaricates from the Indus, to the expan-
33 sion into lake Manchar, is about one hundred miles; * but measured
34 along its very tortuous course, it will be found to be fully double
35 that distance. The long, narrow island, insulated by the Indus,
36 the Narra, lake Manchar, and the Arul, is one of the most
37 fertile tracts in the world, very highly cultivated, and densely
38 peopled. During the season of inundation, the Western Narra is
39 preferred to the main channel of the Indus for the purposes of
40 navigation, in consequence of the current being less violent. The
41 word Narra signifies a snake in the vernacular language, and the
42 name has, without doubt, been bestowed in consequence of the
43 convolutions of the stream.
44 NASSERABAD, in Beloochistan, a village on the route from
45 Kedje to Gwetter, and twenty-five miles south-west of the former
46 place. It is situate on the river Dustee, here called the Moole-
47 danee. Lat. 26° 13’, long. 61° 57’.
48 NASUMON,] in the Northern Punjab, situate on the right or
49 north bank of the Chenaub, and on the great route from India to
50 Kashmir, through the Bainhal Pass. It is a small place, remark-
51 able only for one of those bridges of rude ropes, called in the country
52 2 Gerard, Koona- jhoolas,? by which travellers pass the Chenaub, here about seventy
53 wur, 33,
54 E.LC. Ms. Doc.
55 or eighty yards wide. Nasumon is in lat. 33° 2’, long. 75° 11’.
56 NATHO SALIMKE CHISTEE, in Bhawlpoor, a village
57 * Westmacott erroncously states it at fifty miles (1204).