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MEMOIR OF THE INDUS chap. III.
Below the Gora we have the Khaeer, and Mull,
mouths communicating with it. All three disem-
bogue within twelve miles of each other. The
Khaeer, like the Gora, is unnavigable. The Mull is
safe for boats of 25 tons ; and being the only en-
trance now open to Shah-bunder, is therefore fre-
quented. The boats anchor in an artificial creek
four miles up it, called Lipta, and await the flat-
bottomed craft from the port, distant about twenty
miles north-east.
About five-and-twenty miles below Mull, we meet
the Seer mouth of the Indus, but have salt instead
of fresh water. There are several minor creeks
that intervene, but they do not form any communi-
cation. The Seer is one of the destroyed branches
of the Indus. A dam has been thrown across it
below Mughribee, fifty miles from its mouth; and
though it ceases to be a running stream on that
account, the superfluity of fresh water from above
forces for itself a passage by small creeks, till it
regains the Seer, which thus contains fresh water
twenty miles from its mouth, though it is but a
creek of the sea. The river immediately below
Mughribee is named Goongra ; higher up it is called
Pinyaree, and leaves the parent stream between
Hydrabad and Tatta; The Seer is accessible to
boats of 150 candies (38 tons) to a place called
Gunda, where they load from the flat-bottomed
boats of Mughribee. With some extra labour these
same boats could reach the dam of Mughribee ; and
from that town the inland navigation for flat-bot-
tomed boats is uninterrupted to the main Indus,
MEMOIR OF THE INDUS chap. III.
Below the Gora we have the Khaeer, and Mull,
mouths communicating with it. All three disem-
bogue within twelve miles of each other. The
Khaeer, like the Gora, is unnavigable. The Mull is
safe for boats of 25 tons ; and being the only en-
trance now open to Shah-bunder, is therefore fre-
quented. The boats anchor in an artificial creek
four miles up it, called Lipta, and await the flat-
bottomed craft from the port, distant about twenty
miles north-east.
About five-and-twenty miles below Mull, we meet
the Seer mouth of the Indus, but have salt instead
of fresh water. There are several minor creeks
that intervene, but they do not form any communi-
cation. The Seer is one of the destroyed branches
of the Indus. A dam has been thrown across it
below Mughribee, fifty miles from its mouth; and
though it ceases to be a running stream on that
account, the superfluity of fresh water from above
forces for itself a passage by small creeks, till it
regains the Seer, which thus contains fresh water
twenty miles from its mouth, though it is but a
creek of the sea. The river immediately below
Mughribee is named Goongra ; higher up it is called
Pinyaree, and leaves the parent stream between
Hydrabad and Tatta; The Seer is accessible to
boats of 150 candies (38 tons) to a place called
Gunda, where they load from the flat-bottomed
boats of Mughribee. With some extra labour these
same boats could reach the dam of Mughribee ; and
from that town the inland navigation for flat-bot-
tomed boats is uninterrupted to the main Indus,