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2 Below this junction, the river gets the name of
3 Ab-i-sir (Iudus Proper.)
4 The reader who wishes for par ticular information
5 regarding the Indus, will do well to consult the
6 works of the travellers already mentioned, or the
7 late one published by Thornton, where he will find
8 a concise account gleaned from the resources of
9 practical authors.
10 As a contest to the autopsy of the Indus given
11 in Thornton's Gazetteer, we may here introduce
12 the meagre and somewhat confused account oi the
13 Natives.
14 The river is often named by them Ab-i~sin or
15 Abasheen; the former being a word synonymous
16 with Sin-ka-bab; the meaning of the one being the
17 “ lion's river,” and that of the other the ‘ lion’s
18 mouth, ” The source of the Indus, according to
19 Native accounts, is in the mountain of Kilmak;
20 from thence it washes the boundaries of Kashgar
21 and reaches Thibet. It then flows on the border
22 of Kaffristan and Cashmere, passing Puglee and
23 Dhundour in the country of the Eusufzys, and
24 from thence reaches Attokbunarus. About a mile
25 above the latter, it receives the Cabal river. The
26 ghaut, or ferry, at Attok is below the fort of the
27 same name, here the river is narrow, and the water
28 exceedingly cold. Near the right bank, and in the
29 water, there is a large black rock, against which
30 boats are often dashed and wrecked. This rock is
31 named Julayeea, from a remark of the great Akhbar,