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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAVY.
E. Pottinger, of the Artillery, who partially examined the
HujarareeVanch, and to Lieutenant Wood, who examined the
main river from its junction with the Hnjamree branch to
Hyderabad. On the 24th of October, 1836, Government ordered
the survey of the coast about the Indus, and, during the years
1837-38, Lieutenant Carless carefully examined Kurrachee and
the whole coast line from the eastern mouth of the Indus to
Sonmeanee, on the Beloochistan coast. During the year 1837
the Kedywarree branch was surveyed from its mouth to its
junction with the main river, which also was examined up to
the point where it throws off a small stream culled the xeeteeah,
a distance of thirty-five miles. The great bank lying off the
mouths of the several branches of the Indus, was also thoroughly
examined, with all the channels leading across it. The Hujamree
branch had been examined in 1836, and, according to a report
in the " Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society,"
by the close of the season of 1837, Lieutenant Carless had com
pleted " a trigonometrical survey of all the open mouths and
branches of the Indus, with a portion of the main river, and
the most dangerous part of the coast." On quitting Scinde he
left behind two of his young officers, Messrs. Grieve and Whit
burn, with instructions to report their observations on the
periodical swell of the Indus between Hyderabad and Sehwan,
which had been carried on during the preceding season by
Lieutenant Wood. This they did, and Mr. Whitbum also
visited the Muncha Lake and made a report of his observations.
A very valuable paper by Lieutenant Carless, written to accora-
pany his chart of the survey of the Delta of the Indus, appears
in Vol. VIH. of the " Journal of the Royal Geographical
Society."
In 1833 Commander R. Lloyd succeeded Captain Ross as
Marine Surveyor-General in Bengal, and, for a period of seven
years, fulfilled the duties with zeal and success. During this
time he had under his orders such distinguished surveyors as
Lieutenants Montriou, Young, Fell, and Rennie, and much
important work was done. "In 1833," says Markham, "he
had one brig, with which he conducted a survey of the inland
navigation of Arracan, but after the first season, his operations
were put a stop to by severe illness, contracted by much
exposure in that unhealthy climate. On his restoration to
health, he, in 1835, surveyed the River Hooghly, from Saugor
Island to Calcutta, carefully connecting his work with the base
line measured by Colonel Everest on the Barrackpore Road.
In 1840 he completed the survey of the sea face of the
Sunderbunds from Chittagong to Hidjellie, the results of which
he submitted to Government in the form of carefully drawn
charts, and a most valuable and interesting memoir. He com
pared the state of the coast at the dates of different surveys,