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3 ' rwB lovxa sino or insus.
4 I AM uury to my liut Httie infiuiiiBtion hit been obtaiiied regarding
5 aouioe of tfda river, tiKMii^ toine great bmndies have been tnoed for • vciy
6 GomidenUe dMtiiioe» but not to dietf aoitroe. It *ppBtn dirie are two
7 great braoches join at the town of Dras, eight days march of a coflDa, noftb*
8 nortli-cast of Cashmcer. Tlie left of these branches was seventy yards
9 broad a Httic above the junction, and excessively ra])id ; a wooden bridge
10 was thrown across it at this point, it came from the north of east, and run
11 off west aiter being joined by the Leh or Luddakh branch : and my infinrm*
12 ant aaya be beard it joined the Abba Seen at BoUaL Una I take to lie
13 Mullai on the Indns above Attoc^ of triudi I have had odier aoooonts. and
14 he alio heard thatit was three mondis' journey to the head of tUa fafandi:
15 but this cannot be depended on, and it is the only information I have got
16 regarding this branch, and it certainly appears to be the main one. Other
17 accounts agree that Dras is eight days journey for a caffilla uorth-nortli-ea&t
18 of Caahmeer, but they differ in some degree r^^rding the junction. A
19 Gaihnieerian inAnned mo that theae branchea joined two mardiea abote
20 Dkaai and that at cr htkm Draa it divided into two biancfaeib l3m Icaaar one
21 funnbig aouth to Caahmeer, and the greater one he knew nodnqg abooi;
22 but that it was called the great Sinde, and tlia one which joina tiie Beduata
23 at Cashmeer the little Sind. lliis hnter account rijipears to me very correct,
24 and as a fiirther proof I have a route from Deer in Punjcora north-west of
25 Pealiour, which takes a curve iirom east-north-east to south-east to Cashmeer,
26 by whidi it appears that the Sind was crossed seven days' joiumey before they
27 inived at Cadunter, and tfati point nniat havte been nartii*w«8t Hus agre^
28 %tl]k tibe oUier acoounta, md woold thhuw KiOtt die point at wlneh tiie Sind
29 'wu crossed north-west of Gaaiimeer, about oIm hundred miles west-south^
30 west of Dras, which agrees with the first aooonnts of these joint streams
31 running ftff west from Dras. In the firet account it does not say that a
32 branch bi ealvs off from the great one, but this might be easily omitted, and
33 it appears irom other accounts that a river comes from the northward into
34 Oniuneer^ ilnd ia ealled the Lar by some from its passing through a district
35 «f that name in thjs valley of Caahmeer, but ita proper inme ia the litde
36 JUnd^ which Mr. EoiBlcr .alad mentioDa. Hie Luddakh branch baa beaft
37 traced to a great distance to the south-east. This branch is also joined by
38 another fiom the nortJuwea^ along %hich the road to Yarinuid leada fiir
39 It
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