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The notes of our journey from Hai, down Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Fdrah, towards Jeri
cho, and to Khurbet-et-Tel in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Far ah, and to Khirbet Alamit,
oa+JU the site, as I take it, of the Alemeth of Benjamin, must be
deferred until a more convenient opportunity.
Art. XIIL—Remarks on the Gulf of Cutch. By Captain Gr. Full-
james, Bombay Army.
[Communicated by the Author.]
1. Having lately had occasion to visit the different Bunders (ports)
and Creeks in the northern part of the Gulf of Cutch, I was much struck
by the great want of accuracy in all the printed Maps I have yet seen of
that locality; even the map of Cutch by the late Sir Alexander Burnes,
makes the Gulf an open sea north of Toona, without Islands or obstruc
tions to its junction with the Bunn. The locality being interesting
from its connection with the small and large Bunn, about which much
has been written, and many opinions formed, I trust the following ob
servations may not be altogether devoid of geographical interest.
2. —Previous to my visit I had examined a native chart lent me by
Lieutenant-Colonel Boberts, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Cutch, made by a Bhat-
teea in the employ of H. H. the Bao of Cutch: in this, the northern
part of the Gulf appeared choked up with islands, and so unlike any of
our own maps that I could scarcely believe it possible land existed as
laid down and that none of our surveying officers should have noticed it.
Actual personal inspection has, however, convinced me the chart is near
ly correct, and our maps wrong: a reduced copy of the said chart I have
the pleasure to enclose with this.
3. —It will be observed in this chart, that immediately north of the
fort of Toona in Cutch, the Gulf is obstructed and almost closed by is
lands extending from the western to the eastern shores, and through
which there are only three channels for the influx and reflux of the
tides, or for the escape of the waters of the Bunn during the rainy season.
4. —The three channels are called the Nucktee, Khundla, and Huns-
tal, the first being on the western, and the last on the eastern, side of
the Gulf, the Khundla being in the centre. Both the Khundla and Huns
tal channels are used by the boats plying to the Jinjoora and Wowaneea
bunders,-^—the depth of water in both being sufficient for the largest ti a
ing craft, and their width in most parts not less than a quarter of a mi e.
The name of the Hunstal channel is said by the native boatmen to have