1 000 THB CHUNAa U^mnu.
2 Jdum « few, and Cbanab fivi^ flf« Tii tlwt Htj ttrnmi, ia
3 cfamiMl doM not exceed two hundred and fifty ur diree hundred jnds: tb«
4 ■eeond cfaannelt wfaidi ms much the broadest^ I am told is dry in the eoU
5 weather. There are many islands and sand-banks formed towards its centre,
6 and the measurement was taken between two of these, as at the Jelum, The
7 size of these rivers may be easily calculated for the cold s^ion, for the joint
8 streams of the Jelum, Chunab, Bavee, at Raj Ghat near Moultau, was five
9 htmdred yards, and the greatest depth seventeen Act; bnt tUa was only fbt
10 one throw, and the average may be eight, or eight feet and a hal^ fi>r fiom
11 this it shelved to nothing : allow two hundred and thirty jards for the Jeloo^
12 by eight feet, and two hundred and seventy for the Chimab, by eight feet f
13 and the remaining part by five hundred for the Ravee, for I do not allow the
14 HaA-ee to be more Umu four feet deep, and a little more Uiau a huadred yards
15 broad ^ this may be about their average size in the middle of December, the
16 time we oomed their joint alnam^ ^reeaUe to tiheif breadth and daplfa m
17 tiM raina. I allow fcy tiiia calcniatkm that these liveia mmt haiae mm three
18 and a half or four feet, leaving ten Vt ten feet and a half far the centra af
19 their channels for the cold season, which I think may be pretty near the
20 mark. 1 have not heard of any ford on this river below the hills ; but like
21 the Jehim, it is easily crossed at the pomts where it» banks arc low and its
22 bed broad, Uiere being only a short distance to swim in the centre. I iiave
23 beard of tbo joint atreanw of the Jelom, Chimab^ and Raifw being ibrded by
24 scamdbdktwthe jmictionof the Ravecb but if dui be Ae case it must bavo
25 wpnad at this point considerably. The banks of the Chunab above are Iow»
26 but well wooded, as is the Jelum ; but the timbers are small, and the wood
27 used in building and making boats is floated from the hills seventy aud eighty
28 coss higher up, where it is in great abundance. The horizontal distance from
29 JeDalpoor Ghat to Vizeerabad Ghat, acmm tim Doab, is forty-four miles.
30 Hie oountty cxoessivi^ low, and soil ricb, dually pasture.
31 The following is a list of boats and ghala up and dowo the Jdmn and
32 <}hunab to the right and left of the Ghats we passed. On the Jelam HuUp
33 gla four boat.s, Jelum twenty, Scgonia ten, Russoolpoor and Dadopoor five,
34 Jeiialpoor and vicinity twenty-five, Pmdi Dadun Klum and vicinity forty,
35 Ahmedabad and Bhera twenty, total a liuudred and iwenty-four j in the
36 diatanoe of s«fanly-live or eighty nubs on the Chunsib above yiaaandiad and
37 at it, Viaeenbad twelve^ Sodmthiae^ Deena M6ii|a two^ Marsf Kakot two,
38 Noushara three, Koolow al tw«^ Jmda Bdiadoorpoor fiv^ Kbolasake Cfannee
39 t#o^ Kaone Km Chock four, Aknoon seven, total distance up thirty am,
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