rs of the
Ganges and Burrampooter might accomplish the operation.

_Cutch_, 1819.--A violent earthquake occurred at Cutch, in the delta of
the Indus, on the 16th of June, 1819. (See Map, fig. 71.) The principal
town, Bhooj, was converted into a heap of ruins, and its stone buildings
were thrown down. The movement was felt over an area having a radius of
1000 miles from Bhooj, and extending to Kbatmandoo, Calcutta, and
Pondicherry.[638] The vibrations were felt in Northwest India, at a
distance of 800 miles, after an interval of about fifteen minutes after
the earthquake at Bhooj. At Ahmedabad the great mosque, erected by
Sultan Ahmed nearly 450 years before, fell to the ground, attesting how
long a period had elapsed since a shock of similar violence had visited
that point. At Anjar, the fort, with its tower and guns, was hurled to
the ground in one common mass of ruin. The shocks continued until the
20th; when, thirty miles northwest from Bhooj, the volcano called
Denodur is said by some to have sent forth flames, but Capt. Grant was
unable to authenticate this statement.

[Illustration: Fig. 71. MAP of THE COUNTRIES at THE MOUTH OF THE
INDUS.]

_Subsidence in the delta of the Indus._--Although the ruin of towns was
great, the face of nature in the inland country, says Captain Macmurdo,
was not visibly altered. In the hills some large masses only of rock and
soil were detached from the precipices; but the eastern and almost
deserted channel of the Indus, which bounds the province of Cutch, was
greatly changed. This estuary, or inlet of the sea, was, before the
earthquake, fordable at Luckput, being only about a foot deep when the
tide was at ebb, and at flood-tide never more than six feet; but it was
deepened at the fort of Luckput, after the shock, to more than _eighteen
feet at low water_.[639] On sounding other parts of the channel, it was
found, that where previously the depth of the water at flood never
exceeded one or two feet, it had become from four to ten feet deep. By
these and other remarkable changes of level, a part of the inland
navigation of that country, which had been closed for centuries, became
again practicable.

[Illustration: Fig. 72.

Fort of Sindree, on the eastern branch of the Indus, before it was
submerged by the earthquake of 1819, from a sketch of Capt. Grindlay,
made in 1808.]

_Fort and village submerged._[640]--The fort and village of Sindree, on
the eastern arm of the Indus, abo