1 4
2 •AwnrmzO HIS RtVBB BIND OR INDDR %gj^
3 fifteen days' journey, m has been beibre-mentioued. These marches I hav<
4 reckooed at eleven and twelve miles a day, m it ia through a hiUy countiy,
5 and the caflUlah gcnaiiBy ttrived at tiwir gwaad of ancampm^
6 or twelve o^doek, and marched after nm rise } itHaiaboMaledtebea^ven
7 or eight ooai a day. They crossed the Fanwr xidge to the rjgbt, and tib^
8 left this stream, which I have heard came firom a lake in Pamer, and from
9 its direction being south-east by east, \ imagine it comes from the lake of
10 Swick Kol, U.S the direction of its course aud accounts agree to this lake.
11 This however is only a suppositiou oi mine.
12 Hie Leh bfanch hai been traced mneh fivther, and ib larger than the
13 taoftb'lreat brandi* but smaller than the DMa or left branch. It iq^ieart
14 that fircm Leh to Rodadc, a place whence wod » bmii^ to Caahmeer fiv ■
15 shawls, the road is along this branch twenty-five dq^ journey for
16 the merchants who bring tlie wool j but as it is brought on sheep, and as the
17 country is hilly, I cannot allo'v more than ten miles each day (two hundred
18 and rilty xniles) ; four hundred miles to tlie fort of Attock, and seven
19 hundred to the sea, total <me thousand three hundred and fif^ mUes.
20 The Indm is coafined between high moantains to Tocbela, finr^ inilfla .
21 «bove the fort of Attock eAst-oarfeb-east, where it entets the Tsllej of
22 Chuch, spreading and jforming innnmerable islands to the fort of Attock,
23 where it again enters between the hills, and is at the fort only two hundred
24 and sixty yards broad, but deep and rapid. It rises to the top of a bastion
25 at the edge of the water, which appears to be thirty five or forty feet high,
26 but does not spread above hfly yards more. It enters a plain five miles
27 ■•bmlk of Afttod^ and is ag^ oonftaed betanen hflb at NQab^ ten mika
28 sooth of Attock, and comtniaestowhid uoiMg de«p groupes on to Bhnabali,
29 •latitude 33* / where it enteia the ridi vallejr of the Ew Khels in fiftar
30 great branches, and is not again interrupted in its cowse bj bifls. Erooa
31 this point to Mittenda Kat, where it is joined by the five river'^ of the
32 Punjab in one stream, here called the Puninnd, its course i> m arlv ^ontii,
33 and from that to the sea it may be souLh-souUi-weal, parsing through tlie.
34 country oi Sind. We crossed the liidus at Kaheeree Gliat, latitude 31° 28'
35 4rtiere tb6 breadth of the Ghat at two points was iboiid to be one thousand
36 «Qd ten ind nuie bundled and ihnS jards* on the 5th *of Jannaty
37 At thia season it must he at the verjr .lowest. The dqidi of the dee)^ part
38 of the channel, which was not one hundred yards, was twelve feet; an
39 elqihant ten teet and a half high« had not one handled yards to swini, bnt
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