'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎44] (209/524)

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REMARKS O'N THE TRIBES, &c.
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of what it used as its only record ; each showing that man had come of
age ere history began ; and one and all repealing, as horn the grave, Hie
common doom of human power on earth.
43. To the South of the Geramha ruins lies the bed of a once
abundant river, the KuleeL It passed close under the walls of the
city, with Fort Teesko, seemingly an old citadel, on its Northern side.
A massive gateway stood on the Southern bank. Inc channel of the
Kuleel is now a salt water creek. An earthquake changed the course of
the fresh water stream at its source. And its diy or salty bed still
explains tire cause of the ancient prosperity, and present comparative
desolation of the Genaweh plain. I picked up some spirally grooved
cylinders of baked clay.* Tradition says they were what the Kafirs
hurled from leathern slings when Geramha was attacked. It is pos
sible war may as usual have aided time and nature in destroying art.
The quickest destroyer of men is man.
44. Bunder Iteighis very inferior in size and importance to Beelum.
It imports only for its own wants, and for those of its neighbourhood.
It is not a port for any route to the interior. Its trade may be some
what as below ;—-
Exports*
Wheat and Barley 20,000 Kraus worth.
Wool 10,000 ditto.
Imports,
100 Karehs of Dates and Pieee Goods to the value of 10,000 Krans ; also a few
miscellaneous articles for home consumption.
The gross of the Customs may be 10,000 Krans.
45. To the South of Bunder Heigh, and immediately North of
Bushire creek, lies a flat, corn-growing circle of some ten Arab villages,
known as Rohilla; indeed, it may be remarked, that coming Southward
from the Chaab territories, the plain, there wholly pastoral, becomes
gradually patched with corn, until towards Bohilla large breadths are
found under the plough. A fresh water stream, fordable only in one
or two places, runs through this district, which none the less depends
solely on rain. If is traditioned that this Rood-hulla or Hulla river
received a portion of the waters turned by the earthquake from the
Kuleel river of Genaweh, the remainder of that stream having burst
* Called Gopals) they are picked up in other places along the coast.