Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

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meet it in a bold buttress. The elevation of this
range does not, I think, exceed 2000 feet; their
formation is limestone; the summits are flat and
rounded, never conical: they are bare of vegetation,
and much furrowed by watercourses, all of which
present a concave turn towards the Indus. There
is a hot spring near Sehwun, at the village of Luk-
kee, situated at the base of these mountains, ad-
joining one of a cold description : the hot spring is
a place of Hindoo pilgrimage, and considered sa-
lutary in cutaneous disorders. There is a spring
of the same kind in the neighbourhood of Curachee,
at the other extremity of the same range, so that
similar springs would probably be found in the in-
tervening parts. On this range, and about sixteen
miles westward of Majindu, on the Indus, stands
the fortified hill of Runna, a place of strength in
by-gone years, but, till lately, neglected. The
Ameer of Sinde has repaired it at considerable ex-
pense ; but, from what I could learn, Runna owes
its chief strength to an absence of water from the
bleak mountains which surround it, and the copious
supply within its walls.