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SIND FRONTIER  , a district of British India, in the Sind province of Bombay, with administrative headquarters at Jacobabad . Area, 2621 sq. m . In the north-east the country is hilly; the remainder consists of a narrow strip of level plain, one half being covered with jungle and subject to inundation, from which it is protected by artificial embankments . The land is watered by canals from the Indus, of which the chief are the Begari and Desert canals . The district contains several thriving timber plantations . The climate is remarkable for its dryness and for its extraordinary variations of temperature . The annual rainfall at Jacobabad averages less than 5 in . In 1901 the population was 232,045, showing an increase of no less than 33% in the decade, chiefly due to immigration from Baluchistan . The principal crops are millets, oil-seeds, pulses, wheat and rice . The internal trade is principally in grain, the greater part of which is sent to the sea-board; the transit trade from Central Asia into Sind crosses the district, bringing wool and woollen goods, fruits, carpets and horses . The district is crossed by the Quetta branch of the North-Western railway . The wild Baluchi inhabitants were pacified by General John Jacob between 1847 and his death in 1858 .