Gazetteer of the Kangra Distric

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1[ Punjab Gazetteer,

24 " CHAP. 1.—GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

3Chapter I, A, Passage, 100 feet in depth. Emerging from this i beg

4trib

5Descriptive.

6the nght and left of the mouth of which lie Palchin and Koti,

7General configur. “4° two most northerly villages in Kiilu Proper, the Biis enters

8ation,

90 Bits and iis

10- bank the first is the Solang or Bids-Kund—a glacier-f

11& Valley which viewed from a commanding point on the ridge

12above—distauce exaggerating Steep, and toning down gentle

13slopes—looks like a level alluvial plain of two to four miles

14width, enclosed between two great mountain walls, The river

15flows in a deep bed in the centre of the plain and is joined nit

16intervals hy tributaries, which, having cut deep narrow glens in

17the mountain forming the sides of the valley, flow through the

18alluvial plain in channels a little below the level of its surface,

19Most of these tributaries are fed by the accumulations of snow

20on the tops of the side ridges and are always full of water.

21Channels cut from them at the Points where they leave the

22mountains draw off water to ittigate large portions of the plain,

23which, though it appears level when seen from above, 18 really

24& succession of plateaux slo ing gently down to the banks of the

25river and carefully tara

26of the land in these jg irrigated ; and the remainder, though

27unirrigated, is very rich, The mountains on either side of the

28valley are less perpendicnlar than they seem from a distance and

29are thickly dotted with hamlets, each surrounded with its plot

30of unirrigated cultivation terraced On slopes more or less steep:

31in places the whole face of the monntain from ridge to river ig

32under cultivation ; and in the glens through which the tributaries

33of the Bids flow, there are numerous villages with their fields

34terraced on the sides of the valleys or lying in level strips and

35patches, sometimes irrigated, on the margins of the streams,

36Such is the general aspect of the valley downto the southern

37boundaries, already described, of Wuziri Parol on the left bank

38ofthe river and of Waaziri Lag-Mahdraja on the right bank :

39these boundaries nearly meet on the river ata point adjoining

40the village of Bajanra, 40 miles by road from the mouth of the

41romantic chasm below RéJn. Swollen by its nomerons feeders,

42the Bits has already at this point assumed the dimensions of a

43great river, The more important of these tributaries may here

44noticed ; some have already been mentioned. On the right

45age ed stream

46draining the mountains to the west of the Kotang Pass and

47falling into the Bids at Palchin after @ course of thirteen

48miles through a fine glen clad on both sides With forests of firs

49oad koteas Rurtber down on tho right bank, near Meee on °

50and alting-place, nine miles below Rala, the river is joined by

51the Manilsn Khad—a fine stream with a densely wooded glen

52glorying in the possession of foreats of magnificent deodar cedars.

53Similar though less magnificent forests adorn the valleys of the

54Phojalat; and the Sarvari, which are the other tw , !

55the most import.

56of the Biss.on its right bank. On the left bank

57not tributary is the Rainihal, which riging on the Himta Pass

58at an elevation of 15,000 feet on the Bids-Checat watershed

59into fields. As much ag possible -