ve Luckput, are stated by the same
writer to have been overflowed; and, after the shock, the tops of the
houses and wall were alone to be seen above the water, for the houses,
although submerged, were not cast down. Had they been situated,
therefore, in the interior, where so many forts were levelled to the
ground, their site would, perhaps, have been regarded as having remained
comparatively unmoved. Hence we may suspect that great permanent
upheavings and depressions of soil may be the result of earthquakes,
without the inhabitants being in the least degree conscious of any
change of level.

A more recent survey of Cutch, by Sir A. Burnes, who was not in
communication with Capt. Macmurdo, confirms the facts above enumerated,
and adds many important details.[641] That officer examined the delta of
the Indus in 1826 and 1828, and from his account it appears that, when
Sindree subsided in June, 1819, the sea flowed in by the eastern mouth
of the Indus, and in a few hours converted a tract of land, 2000 square
miles in area, into an inland sea, or lagoon. Neither the rush of the
sea into this new depression, nor the movement of the earthquake, threw
down entirely the small fort of Sindree, one of the four towers, the
northwestern, still continuing to stand; and, the day after the
earthquake, the inhabitants who had ascended to the top of this tower,
saved themselves in boats.[642]

_Elevation of the Ullah Bund._--Immediately after the shock, the
inhabitants of Sindree saw, at the distance of five miles and a half
from their village, a long elevated mound, where previously there had
been a low and perfectly level plain. (See Map, fig. 71.) To this
uplifted tract they gave the name of "Ullah Bund," or the "Mound of
God," to distinguish it from several artificial dams previously thrown
across the eastern arm of the Indus.

_Extent of country raised._--It has been ascertained that this
new-raised country is _upwards of fifty miles_ in length from east to
west, running parallel to that line of subsidence before mentioned,
which caused the grounds around Sindree to be flooded. The range of this
elevation extends from Puchum Island towards Gharee; its breadth from
north to south is conjectured to be in some parts _sixteen miles_, and
its greatest ascertained height above the original level of the delta is
ten feet,--an elevation which appears to the eye to be very uniform
throughout.

For several years after the convulsion