DAMAUN, or the Border, a strip of territory in Hindustan, so called because it stretches between the Suliman Mountains and the river Indus. The tract formerly constituted a portion of Runjeet Singh's kingdom of Lahore, and is now annexed to the British province of the Punjab. Among the principal towns are those of Dera Ismael Khan, Dera Fati Khan, and Dera Ghazee Khan. The Damaun is 300 miles in length from the Salt Range on the north to the borders of Scinde on the south, and its average breadth is about sixty miles. Lat. 28. 40. to 33. 20.; Long. 69. 30. to 71. 20. (E. T.)