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Sasur, a tribe, India, ii. 59.
Sata Deveep, account of the island of,
India, iii. 104, 105.
Satanoness, a talooka or district of Oond,
India, vii. 70, 94.
Satbakra, India, height above the sea,
(1979-5 feet,) ix. 346.
Sath, a town, India, ii. 51.
Sathpoora Mountains, on the, by Lieu
tenant C. P. Rigby, ix. 69; position
of the mountains, and their physical
features, 69; list of the principal
rivers and streams which have their
source in them, 70 ; the number and
nature of the various passes, 71; the
revenue and inhabitants, 72 ; cultiva
tion and produce of the soil, 72, 73 ;
conjectures as to the past history of
the district, 73; the tribes inhabiting
the locality, and their physical pecu
liarities, 74, 75 ; their feasts, and mar
riage customs, 76-78 ; their treatment
of the dead, 79; their religion, 79;
their villages and festivals, 80-83;
their language, 83 ; statistical returns
of the population, revenue, and castes,
84, 85; vocabulary of the language of
the three tribes, 86-98.
Satodur Waoree, a talooka or district of
Hallar, India, vii. 58, 94.
Satpura, a talooka or district of Oond,
India, vii. 70, 96.
Sattarah, India, account of a remarkable
hailstorm at, ix. 191, 195; xii. 18, 19.
Sattara, tabular view of the meteorology
of, for 1848, ix. 14, 15.
Sattara territory, comparative fall of
rain at different places in the, ix. 17.
Sattara territory, notes on the meteoro
logy of the, ix. 13, et seq.
Savary, M., his letters on Egypt, xv. 95.
Sawargaon, India, height above the sea,
(1927"9 feet,) ix. 343.
Saya de Malha, a reef of the Chagos
Archipelago, xv. 107, 108.
Sawalu, a town, India, ii. 51.
Schombergh, Mr., instructions to, from
the Royal Geographical Society, re
garding the mode of prosecuting dis
coveries in British Guiana, i. 268-272.
*Schubeler, Dr F. C., a Swedish natu
ralist, xvii. 86.
Scinde. See also under Sind.
Scinde, Account of, by Capt. A. Burnes,
i. 22; its area and boundaries, &3; the
Indus its great feature—course of the
river traced, 23, 24 ; its source, tribu
taries, and delta, 23, 30, 31; its fer
tility solely owing to the river—face of
the country flat and uninteresting,
poorly cultivated, staple product rice,
large revenue produced, 24 ; its his
tory, chief . towns, and inhabitants,
25, 26, 28; its religion, language, go
vernment, and military power, 27-29 ;
its natural productions, 29, 30; 320-
326 ; its trade and commercial import
ance, 315-326.
Scinde, account of an earthquake in, x
284-286.
*Scinde, account of the mud volcanoes
of, ix. 107, 108.
Scinde and the River Indus as far
up as Bukkur, Some Observations
upon, by Lieutenant R. N. Magrath,
ii. 25f; resemblance between the Nile
and the Ganges, 25 ; physical charac
teristics of the Indus, 26 ; the village
of Garrah and the town of Tatta, and
scenery of the river from Tatta to
Hydrabad, 27; the produce of the
river and the Ameers—Hydrabad, 28;
the Nara creek and the villages on its
banks, 29 ; the town of Sew an and
Lake Munchur, and the country in the
neighbourhood, 30, 31.
Scinde, India, xv. 9, 28, 103.
Scinde, Notes on, by Dr J. W. Win
chester, vi. 190 ; boundaries and dis
tinguishing features of the country,
191; its mountain ranges and roads,
192; the Thurr, or great Indian
desert, 192 ; the Runn of Cutch de
scribed, 193 ; hilly and barren nature
of some portions of the country, 194 ;
the valley of the Indus and its delta,
195 ; nature of the mountain ranges,
and state of the soil, 196; the Indus
and its branches, 197; the climate,
vegetation, and natural productions,
198 ; sketch of its recent history, 199;
its revenue and agricultural resources,
200-202 ; its population, religion, edu
cational condition, and industrial pur
suits, 202, 203 ; account of the towns
of Kurrachee, Meerpore, Omercote,
and Khyrpoor, 204, 205.
Scinde, Report on the Heavy Rain in,
in July and August 1851, and its
Effects on Cultivation in the
Kurrachee Collectorate, by H. B.
Frere, x. 239; first account of-the
damage done to the country, crops,
and villages, 239-246; defective con
struction of the roofs of the houses
in Scinde, 248, 249; another account