1 THE BEYAH, OR BEYA&
2 LAmunux.
3 OMtiin, and that it has taken a curve in the hills-ftir thiM fmo nnidbM and
4 oome round to the right to the point at which he crossed it, ftr Im agni it
5 ran from his left to ritxht, which would agree, and I have m ronseqiience
6 given it this cur^'e atid made it the Ravee, or at all events its most distant
7 branch* This route also proves to me that the Ciiuoab does not oome &ota
8 die nortliwwd of the mmy ridge, beeauw tliw route mint heve ciMnd it tf
9 it did, but dm it nsppoang the only route 1 heve got by diii roed to be
10 correct, which not of course be the case ; and without a seeond to oor*
11 roborate this, I would not consider this as certain, though 1 have every rea-
12 son to suppose this route correct, for it agrees with others fxoia Nooipoor
13 downward* '
14 Tm9 river measured, at Bhirowal Ghat, seven hundred and forty yards.
15 Its ngtit bank is very iiigh, and its current very rapid. The day we reached
16 it, it was at its greatest height, and so ra|iid that the boats could not make
17 the kft benk* Some woe cHiied down six or aeren coas in attempting it }
18 ^ however, mi the neit dey. ItisfiMdahle in mottpleeM iadkeooldfM.
19 •on, but its bed contains many qiuckraaiMlib-Wid at thia aaeian theae are muay
20 islands and taad beds fonrod towards itscetttre. Thne aae tir«ity4ive IxMts
21 at this Ghat and its vicinity, but they are verv bad for the rainy season.
22 They are made ol'ilat planks, more like ratts tiiaii boats, with a plank of onr
23 ibot all round, and do not draw six inches , water when filled. There is but
24 litUe weed along the banks of this river what there is it malL Itjttnatfae
25 Sntlnj eighteen cobs below Bfajvoowal neat the viUiffe of Hurake^ not ibr
26 fioa Feroozpoor ; after their junction the joint streams are called Beas, and
27 afterwards called Ghara, but from wliat point T know not. It is callpd the
28 Gharrah at Gordeean Ghat near i'akputiun, a hundred coss above Biitia\v u!-
29 poor. They join the Chuuab above C^h, as has been mentioned, tlurty-two
30 con bekyw Bobawulpoor, and fifty-eight fiem Moidtan. The Beyas and
31 SuUuj are nearly the aaase si«^ but the Beyaa ia xadier the laiyciC* Xlidlr
32 couiacb Umh is nearly the same fixHn die snowy ridg% « ]iuiidred and ilfty
33 attlaa to their junction, and two hundred and sixty more to thdr jnnction
34 with the Chunab or joint streams of the Jelum, Chunab, and Ravee. Wood
35 is to be got in abuntlance tioiu the hills not fas disiant . The Begas Guuga
36 and Baa Gunga ixom the Beyaa, the ibrmer pas&mg Kot kaagra to the siNxthF
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