1 nmua iii
2 Mid iiuediate^ ipreMk llidf over tiie p]am» sndmloMiimninier*
3 ■ble iffliiM^i
4 FbttyinilM kiwer doim, nd new diA ibit of Atto^
5 npid m«r of Caubul, and soon after rushes throng a narrow open-
6 ing into the nudst of the bsanchet of the Soliniaimy range. Even
7 when the water is lowest, the meeting of those riverSf and their course
8 through the rocks before they are buried in the mountainst is full of
9 waves and eddies, and produces a sound like that of the sea. ^t,
10 when they are swelled by the melting of the snow, they create a tre-
11 mendons v hirlj^ool, the roaring of which can be heard at a great din-
12 tance, and which often swallows up boats, or daslies them against the
13 rocks. The Indus, which is so widely spread in the jihiin, is contract-
14 ed at Attock to the breadth of about three hundred yards. It be-
15 comes still Tiarrower where it enters the hills ; and at Neelaub, a
16 town fifteen miles below Attok, it is said to bv no more ilian a stone's
17 throw Hcross, but exceediugly deep and rapid. 1 rum Neelaub, it
18 winds among bare lulls to Clarrabauijh, where it passes tiirough tlie
19 salt range in a deep, clear, and tranquil st i t ani. From this to the
20 sea it meets with no interruption, and is no loisger shut iu by hills.
21 It now runs in a southerly course, and is poured out o% er the pl iia
22 in many channels, which meet and sepu'ate again, but seldom are
23 found all united in one stream.
24 [ Nou" Ouch, it receives the Punjnud, a riverformed by the junction
25 of those of the Fkmjaub, which, though a great body of water, is much
26 inferior to the Indus above the jnnction. . Hie river then mns
27 sonthnvest into Sind> where it is discharged through many mouths
28 into the Giilph of Arabia. In the part of its comsei south of noon-
29 tainsi it fiequently eats away its banks; and gradually changes its
30 course; and, at its annual risin|^ it inundates the country for many
31 miles on each side of its bed *.
32 " Sincf fh<> account of the source of the Indus wrut written, I hare received a highly
33 iaU;rtrt>uog journal from Meer Izzut Odlab, a veiy mtd%ent native of Delly, who vt»