'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎304] (483/524)

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REPORT ON DIIUR YAROO.
and E. into Sind. First, into a spring of fresh water at a point North-
wards called Gudda-jo-puchro (Donkey’s tail) in the country of the
Gaichas, a tribe owing allegiance to Ghybee Khan Ghandia. It then
in part disappears and breaks out again about five miles further
East, and two thousand feet lower down into a fine perennial river, in
which fish are found almost at the point where the water rushes out
from the rocks. The edges of the stream are fringed with ferns and
the banks covered with wild Oleander, Peepul, Tamarisk, and two
varieties of Acacias. The drainage is shown by the light blue lines in
the sketch.
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There are probably upwards of one thousand acres of cultivable land
at Dbur Yaroo. The soil is a yellowish red marl, washed from the
hills, in some places of considerable depth, and in favourable seasons
will yield two crops.
The inhabitants are Chootas, a Sindee tribe of Juts, whose Chief,
Domed Ali, lives near the Hubb river, and about fifty miles from Kurra-
chee. How they came to settle here apart from their tribe is uncertain,
hut though they have given aid to the Chandias in their quarrels with
the Mugzees and other Belooch tribes, fear, and not a sense of allegiance,
was apparently the cause.
The height of the plateau above the sea, as obtained by repeated
experiments on the boiling point of water, is about six thousand feet.
The hills bounding it on the East are fully three hundred feet above
this level ; those on the West (Keerthur) seven ; while the Dog’s Tomb
—the point of junction of the Eastern spur with the main range—is
twelve hundred feet. This is the highest point in those mountains, and
is visible during the cold season from most places in the Shikarpoor
Collectorate.
It will be thus seen that Dhur Yaroo is well protected all round, and
not so exposed to the high winds that render other elevated points in
those hills so disagreeable and often unbearable.
The ranges are composed of red sandstone intermixed, especially in
the Peheroo range, with nummulitic and a smooth and friable whitey-
grey limestone. Fossils free and imbedded are abundant here.
A whitish shaly limestone, often considerably polished, apparently
from water action, enters largely into the composition of the higher