1 OMA—OOC. 85
2 that elevation commence the forests of zaitoon, or wild olive,
3 which clothe the mountains for a farther height of two thousand
4 feet. The deodar cedar grows in great abundance above this, to
5 the elevation of ten thousand feet. The timber used at Kabool
6 being of bad quality and high price, it would be very desirable for
7 that place that favourable means should be found for transporting
8 thither the produce of these fine forests. This, however, is im-
9 practicable, on account of the intervening difficulties ; but the
10 timber of Olipore could certainly be fioated to the river of Ka-
11 bool down the stream which flows through the valley, and is
12 described by Griffith? as a large torrent. Once afloat on the
13 Kabool river, there would be no insurmountable obstacle to its
14 ” passage even as far as the ocean. Olipore is in lat. 34° 54’,
15 long. 70° 12’,
16 MARKOTE.—See Omznrcors.
17 OMERCOTE,! in Sinde, a town and fort in the eastern desert.
18 The fort is situate half a mile from the town, and is five hundred
19 feet square, having a mud wall forty feet high, a strong round
20 tower at each corner, and six square towers on each side. There
21 is but one gate, which is on the eastern side, and is protected by
22 an outwork. It was usually garrisoned by four hundred men.
23 Though nearly a hundred miles from the Indus, a branch of that
24 river finds its way hither in time of inundation, and, in 1826,?
25 flowed with such violence as to sweep away the north-west tower.
26 Water is to be had near the surface, and there is a pool twenty
27 feet deep in the channel of this branch of the Indus west of the
28 fort. Omercote was taken in 1813, by the Ameers of Sinde,
29 from the Rajah of Joudpoor. ‘It is celebrated as the birthplace of
30 the renowned emperor Akbar, his father, Homayan, having in his
31 exile taken refuge here.? Lat. 25° 19’, long. 69° 47’.
32 OOBOWRALH, in Sinde, a village on the route from Subzul-
33 cote to Shikarpoor, and thirteen miles west of the former town.
34 It is situate on the eastern bank of a dund or stagnant piece of
35 water, in a low alluvial country, which is extensively flooded
36 during the inundation of the Indus, but in the season of low
37 water the road east and west of the village is level and practicable
38 for carriages. Lat. 28° 10’, long. 69° 30’.
39 OOCH, in Bhawlpoor, a city situate four miles from the left 2
40 bank of the Punjnud river, amidst beautiful groves. It is formed
41 of three distinct towns, a few hundred yards apart, and each sur-
42 2 Ut supra, 16.
43 1 Leech, on Sind.
44 Army, 77.
45 2 Burnes, Bokh. iii.
46 ? 315, $16.
47 3 Price, Chronol,
48 Retrospect, fii.
49 803.
50 E.EC. Ms. Doc. ;
51 Hough, Narr. of
52 Exp. in Afy. 424,
53 Masson, Bal. Afg.
54 anj. i, 22
55 Burnes’ Bokh,
56 ii]. 00; Boileau,
57 Rajwara, 63;
58 Wood, Oxus, 72,