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running water has to be crossed in each march. At this season, also,
spates or freshets occur, and probably at such times the whole bed of
the river is filled with a raging torrent, 100 to 200 yards in width and
12 to 15 feet deep. All progress is then of course impossible.
About 4^ miles above Mir Alam Kala the main stream of the Lora is
bounded, and its water entirely diverted into canals which fertilize the
lands of the Barechis in the Shorawak plain. Somewhat lower down,
on the left bank, is another smaller bund, which turns the remainder of
the water into a canal irrigating the land on the east side of the river.
These bunds are but slight constructions carried away by every flood.
Immediately the river gets out of the hills into the soft alluvial soil. of
the plain, it cuts for itself an enormous bed very much like that which
characterizes its course in Pishin. But before this bed has reached its
lull dimensions there is a noteworthy channel on the right bank, resem
bling, where it is given off by the river, an extensive spill. This is the
Dori or Lora nala (y. ?.), and was no doubt at a former period the actual
Lora The debouchure of the river is at the north-east corner of Shora
wak, and it runs diagonally across the plain in a south-westerly direction
for about 15 miles. In this portion of its course it has a width of from
300 to 150 yards, with perpendicular banks 25 feet high as in hh shl "*
There is a little scattered jungle of tamarisk and other shrubs in the bed,
but no running w'ater, except in floods, as it is all drawn °ff b y the
irrigation canals mentioned above. I here is a crossing to ir ^ u lamma
karez near the debouchure, and others opposite the villages of Jhiaj
(Putla Khan), Zabardast, and Miru Khan. All these are good came
tracks, but would require labour to make them fit for the passage
^ Alter’passing Mandozai the Lora bends to the south and a PP^"
to gradually contract its channel, for where crossed by the Nushlci
road, 3 miles south of Salad Bus, it is only 60 yards wide and abo “‘ ' 5
feet deep. The banks are alternately scarped and shelving. When
dry, artillery can cross without difficulty; but i iere is a ^ , .
running, the ford is an awkward one on account o ie 50 n ,•
bottom which approaches to a quicksand. 1 rave ers * fl ooc i >
delayed for days together when there has een aeons anc j
From about here the Lora resumes its sou " wes , j ^aes
traverses the Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. (y. v-), a long, flat,alluvial p am oun , ^j tants
to east and west, and without cultivation or permanent inhabitants.
The Dori, after various meanderings among e san r ; vcr near the
Shorawak plain, emerges into the Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. , and rejoins Saiad Bus
boundary line of Baluchistan, some 8 miles south-south-westofSa^
Notwithstanding this, the channel of the Lora is
smaller than in Shorawak, and its course is not unfrequently chang
heavy floods The great amount of silt brought down by the river
when full, naturally Accounts for the filling up of “' 6tln g S the5 e
the consequent formation of new ones. It is p nn rmnus bed
changes that the river is unable to excavate for i se e j com _
which it possesses higher up, and in big floo s ie i nuke remarks
pletely fills the channel but overflows the Dak System of postal communication used in Moghul India and later by the East India Company. Duke remarks
that at Bulandwala, where the Lora enters Ka a er i Y* ,
come low, “ and here its waters," to use the country people s phrase,