Rual (5 do.).—Twelve hamlets termed _thal_, scattered round a tract of several coss, inhabited by different tribes, after whom they are named, as Sodha, Sahariya, Kaurava, Brahman, Bania and Sutar, as Sodha-ka-bas, Sahariya-ka-bas, or habitations of the Sodhas; of the Sahariyas, etc. etc. (see p. 1263). Deli (7 do.).—One hundred houses; a _thal_, or collector of duties, resides here. Garara (10 do.).—Described in route from Umarkot to Jaisalmer. Raedana (11 do.).—Forty houses; a lake formed by damming up the water. _thal_, or salt-pans. Kotra (9 do.). Sheo (3 do.).—The whole space from Nagar to Sheo-Kotra is a continuous mass of lofty sand-hills (_thal_), scattered with hamlets (_thal_), in many parts affording abundant pasture for flocks of sheep, goats, buffaloes, and camels; the _thal_ extends south to Nawakot and Balwar, about ten coss south of the former and two of the latter. To the left of Nawakot are the flats of Talpura, or Lower Sind. Jaisalmer to Sheo Kotra, Barmer, Nagar-Gura and Suigam. Dhana (5 coss).—Two hundred houses of Paliwals; pool and wells; ridge two to three hundred feet high, cultivation between the ridges. Chincha (7 do.).—Small hamlet; Sara, half a coss east; ridge, low _thal_, cultivation. Jasrana (2 do.).—Thirty houses of Paliwals, as before; Kita to the right half a coss. Unda (1 do.).—Fifty houses of Paliwals and Jain Rajputs; wells and pools; country as before [342]. Sangar (2 do.).—Sixty houses; only fifteen inhabited, the rest fled to Sind during the famine of 1813; Charans. Grand _thal_ commences. Sangar-ka-talao (½ do.).—Water remains generally eight months in the talao or pool, sometimes the whole year. ┌ Between is the _thal_ or boundary of Jaisalmer Bhikarae (1½ do.) │ and Jodhpur. Bhikarae has one Kharel (4 do.) │ hundred and twenty houses of Paliwals; └ wells and pools at both places. Rajarel (1 do.).—Seventy houses; most deserted since famine. Gonga (4 do.).—Hamlet of twenty huts; _thal_, or small wells and pools; to this the ridge and _thal_ intermingle. Sheo (2 do.).—Capital of the district. Nimla (4 do.).—Forty houses; deserted. Bhadka (2 do.).—Four hundred houses; deserted. This is “the third year of famine!” Kapulri (3 do.).—Thirty huts, deserted; wells. Jalepa (3 do.).—Twenty huts; deserted. Nagar (Gurha) (20 do.).—This is a large town on the west bank of the Luni River, of four to five hundred houses, but many deserted since the famine, which has almost depopulated this region. In 1813 the inhabitants were flying as far as the Ganges, and selling themselves and offspring into slavery to save life. Barmer (6 do.).—A town of twelve hundred houses. Guru (2 do.).—West side of the Luni; town of seven hundred houses; the chief is styled Rana, and of the Chauhan tribe. Bata (3 do.).—West side of river.