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chap, xvil, THE RUN OF CUTCH.
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same privileges. This sea had the name of " Kiln;"
nor do I believe that the testimony of so many
people, regarding it, can be discredited, informed
as I was of these traditions by different persons,
who had no communication with one another.
The effects of the earthquake of 1819 have been
already mentioned, in so far as relates to the country
adjoining the Indus ; but occurrences of an equally
singular nature happened farther eastward. It
made numerous cracks or fissures in the Run; and
I state, on the authority of eye-witnesses, that im-
mense quantities of black, muddy water were
ejected from these openings for a period of three
days, and that the water bubbled out of the wells
of the tract bordering on the Run, called Bunnee,
till it overwhelmed the country in some places with
six, and even ten feet of water. The shepherds
with difficulty saved themselves and their flocks.
During this time numerous pieces of iron and ship-
nails were thrown up at Phangwuro, the seaport
before mentioned ; and similar things have been
since found in the same neighbourhood while dig-
ging tanks. I give this fact on the authority of
respectable men at Nurra, who also assured me that
nothing of the kind had ever been discovered before
the earthquake of 1819.
The grand Run of Cutch is that part which lies
between Sinde and the islands of Puchum and
Khureer, the other parts being but ramifications of
it. It has a communication with the sea both on
the east and west, by means of the Gulf of Cutch
and a branch of the Indus, and it is flooded from
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same privileges. This sea had the name of " Kiln;"
nor do I believe that the testimony of so many
people, regarding it, can be discredited, informed
as I was of these traditions by different persons,
who had no communication with one another.
The effects of the earthquake of 1819 have been
already mentioned, in so far as relates to the country
adjoining the Indus ; but occurrences of an equally
singular nature happened farther eastward. It
made numerous cracks or fissures in the Run; and
I state, on the authority of eye-witnesses, that im-
mense quantities of black, muddy water were
ejected from these openings for a period of three
days, and that the water bubbled out of the wells
of the tract bordering on the Run, called Bunnee,
till it overwhelmed the country in some places with
six, and even ten feet of water. The shepherds
with difficulty saved themselves and their flocks.
During this time numerous pieces of iron and ship-
nails were thrown up at Phangwuro, the seaport
before mentioned ; and similar things have been
since found in the same neighbourhood while dig-
ging tanks. I give this fact on the authority of
respectable men at Nurra, who also assured me that
nothing of the kind had ever been discovered before
the earthquake of 1819.
The grand Run of Cutch is that part which lies
between Sinde and the islands of Puchum and
Khureer, the other parts being but ramifications of
it. It has a communication with the sea both on
the east and west, by means of the Gulf of Cutch
and a branch of the Indus, and it is flooded from
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