. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. idest, near Kot Deji or Diji. Itrises about 150 feet from the plain in the neighbourhood of the of the Indus, in Lower Sind, there is a second smaller area of lowhills, on the northern portion of which the town of Hyderabad is tract of hills extends 21 miles from north to south, by about 6 mileswide. A third ridge of high ground occurs close to Tatta, and is 18miles long from north to south, and 4 from east to west. In all thesecases portions are detached and separated by alluvium from the mainrano-e, and there are some other s
. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India. idest, near Kot Deji or Diji. Itrises about 150 feet from the plain in the neighbourhood of the of the Indus, in Lower Sind, there is a second smaller area of lowhills, on the northern portion of which the town of Hyderabad is tract of hills extends 21 miles from north to south, by about 6 mileswide. A third ridge of high ground occurs close to Tatta, and is 18miles long from north to south, and 4 from east to west. In all thesecases portions are detached and separated by alluvium from the mainrano-e, and there are some other small and unimportant patches, none ofwhich are of any size, near the edge of the alluvial area. One of these,near Jhirak, is situated on the east bank of the Indus. The rock area near Sukkur is chiefly remarkable for being intersected bythe channel of the river Indus, which, strange to say, has cut its waythrough the limestone range between the towns of Sukkur and Rohri^( 2i ) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA Blanfor d Memoirs . Vol XVII. PI: 0» Stone by Aminull PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 25 instead of pursuing a course through the alluvial plain to the east or westIntersection of rock °^ the hills. The fortified island of Bakhar, orarea by Indus. Bukkur, in the middle of the river between the two towns, is also of rock. Nor is this all, for at Aror, 4 miles south-west ofRohri, there is another break in the limestone range, and this gap is said, onwhat appears to be good historical evidence, to have been a former bed of theriver deserted for the present channel rather more than nine centuries present memoir, as already noticed, does not deal with Eastern Sind, where, however, the rock areas which occurHills of Western Sind. are mere isolated exposures, greatly concealed byan expanse of blown sand. All the principal hills of Sind lie west of theIndus, and nearly all consist of north and south ranges. On the accom-panying sketch map (Plate II) the various ranges are represented
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