1 JNTRODUCnON.
2 tlie hill wbiaee we Hood, at the IboC of ubicli it was jdned by the
3 t Ginbiil river« lliere were nunMRMu Tocks et the point of junotioiir
4 and as bodi riTets'ian with great impetiioei^,' ilie tifftk and the
5 aaand» pcodnced by the daahing of tlieir waten» were very noble.
6 After this tbe riven were coitteoted intoone disnnel, and r»itlii«Nigb
7 the moontsins in a deep but nanow stream' between high banks
8 of perpendicular rock. The fixt of . Attock was also plainly seen
9 from this, and on desooidin^ we encamped On a qpot oppose to
10 that place.
11 The Xndm was here about two hundred and sixty yards broad,
12 but too deep and rapid to be correctly sounded. Its banks are of
13 black stone, polished by the force of the stream, and by the white
14 sand which it carries along with it, so as to shine like black marble*
15 and always to look as if it were wet.
16 In the midst are the famous rocks of Jellalleea and Kenialleea;
17 but the whirlpool oi' which we had heard so much, did oot rage
18 at the season when we passed.
19 The fort of Attock stood on a low hillock on the left bank. It
20 is a parallelogram, of which the shortest Aces (tliose parsllel to the
21 livw) are about four hundred yards long, the others are of twice
22 diat kngth. Ihe walls are of polished stone^ but tfaoni^ the place
23 . makes a handsome show, it is commanded hy a louj^ bill, only
24 divided fiom it by a laTuie ; and being on a dofe, almost the whole
25 of the interior, and the lerccse of the walls on three &oes» are
26 Tunble from the opposite bank. The town, though now decayed, was
27 once very considerable.
28 The villsge,' at which we encamped, was a small one, distinguished
29 Ibr a sort of fort, said to be Iniilt by Nadir Shauh, and for a fine
30 aqoedoct made by some fimner chief of the Khuttuks, to water the
31 aeighbourmg lands.
32 Notwithstanding the violence of the stream, the boats passed
33 quicker here than at any river we had yet crossed. We also saw
34 many people crossing, or floating down the riv^, on the skins of oxen
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