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KHAIRPUR, or KHYRPOOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KHAIRPUR, or KHYRPOOR , a native See also:state of See also:India, in the See also:Sind See also:province of Bombay. See also:Area, 605o sq. m.; pop. (z9ox), II 199,313, showing an apparent increase of 55 % in the See also:decade; estimated See also:revenue, £90,000. Like other parts of Sind, Khairpur consists of a See also:great alluvial See also:plain, very See also:rich and fertile in the neighbourhood of the See also:Indus and the See also:irrigation canals, the remaining area being a continuous See also:series of See also:sand-See also:hill ridges covered with a stunted brushwood, where cultivation is altogether impossible. A small See also:ridge of See also:limestone hills passes through the See also:northern See also:part of the state, being a continuation of a ridge known as the Ghar, See also:running southwards from Rohri. The state is watered by five canals See also:drawn off from the Indus, besides the Eastern See also:Nara, a See also:canal which follows an old See also:bed of the Indus. In the See also:desert tracts are pits of natron.

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