1 THE BAVEE.
2 661
3 lbrtjr4ivo boBta ; down fiom ViienlNid, Baanft Khan tw<s SuUooiEe twcv
4 Ramnugger twenty-one, Morad four, Wannuke tmOt. Menbdeea bod Mmb*
5 deeabad two, Bhuttee Kachuch Jellalpoor four, Khadirabad Gliat six, total
6 eighty-four, in the distance of fifty-five coss. The course of the Chuiiab,
7 from the snowy mountains to which it has been traced to Mitten Kakot, iive
8 hundred aod ibrty miles.
9 Is the least hy far of all the Punjab rivers ; its measurement from edge to
10 edge of writer wa« on! v five hundred and thirteen yards, 1 2th of August,
11 when it siiuuid ime uttuiaed its full height : its chamiei is very narrow. 1
12 liad only two throws of tfie l««d in pMsing it, twelve ftet The bottom has
13 a good dsal of taoA, much more than any of the other nven^ OQe>lifth mejr
14 be mud, the remainder sand. The deep channel could not have exceeded in
15 bread til thirty or forty yards, the remainder was fiom three to five feet, atid
16 two or three tiirows eight or nine feet : in thf cohl season it is fordable all
17 over, not above tour feet deep. There are many quick-sands, and its banks
18 are low and well wooded. There are but few boats on this river, but those
19 there M% are good, and much the same as are nsed on the Jumnju The
20 Indus, Mam, and Onmah have the same kind of boeti^ which erass fiom ten
21 to twelve horses.
22 The distance from Vizcerabad Ghat to Meannee Ghat on the Ravee, fitly-
23 five miles horizontal distance. This Doab is rich and flat, but hit^'her land
24 tlian the last, and the soil not so very rich. The course of the Ravee is very
25 oonsiderabliv bat I am not quite certain of its haviiig the Ml coofse I have
26 givmittoitsjanctioninditheChanahk cf fbur Irandred and fifteen miles i
27 it appears, however, by a route from Casbmeer, through Kishtwnr, that after
28 crossing the high ridge into Kishtwar, the road leads all the way from this
29 point along the banks of a stream, tlie name of which was unfortunately not
30 known to my informant, and it appears that he had it on his right to within
31 tiiree inarclies oi' Noorpoor, where he croiUied it and leil it running o&' to his
32 left: in his last nnypch to Nompoor ftooi Bnssntd, he crossed tfie Ravee^
33 wbkik he said was thereabout the sine of the stream he left three mardiea
34 back. It appears more than probable that thi<? stream was the Ravee, but
35 he did not know it as such at the point he left ; as lie left it to his left, it
36 must have either g<Hie to the B^as or fiavee* but I think the latter is ahnosfr