Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1Amritsar District. ]

2CHAP. L—THE prstTinicr. 8

3course, and the depressivn ia still clearly traceable. At present

4the stream hugs the high western bank, more or less closely,

5throughout the whole of its courss, past thie district. What

6cultivation there i¢ in the valley, is carried on between the

7foot of the cliff and the normal cold weathor stream, or in the

8bays of older Jand which lie back where the cliff recedes. At

9a mile im width and from 80 to 35 feet in depth, But the

10Hooda, awollen by the malting snows.on the hills, quickly eub-

11side and have passed their worst by the sak oy of August,

12itor which the higher portions of the inundated [and are sown

13with course rice and pulses, In the cold weather, tho river

14rarely sinks so Jow.as to be fordable, and ia seldom over a

15ki yards wide, Tho North-Western Stute Hailway crossex

16it ty» bridge close to the etution, known os Beds, and close

17tothe point atwhich the Armritsar and Torn ‘I'fran talia(le

18meet. Here for road traffic a bridge of bonts used to be

19maintained, but this has been discontinued. Troqpa passing

20slong the Grand Trunk Road sre now ferried across of

21soiree inconvenience. ‘There is no subway below the Railway

22bridge, The high bauk, on the Amritenr side, preclades the river

23boing waed for inland irrigation tulese a canal were to

24bo taken ont farup.in the Gurléspor District, near where the

25' Wes Ravi isa ory of ges pares, Both iter

26varie wwet part of equal height, and the river in foo

27time encroaches impartially on either side, setting pow on ene

28bank and now on tho other, and transferring whole villages by a

29process of erowion and avcretion fram one to the other sido of the

30main etream. For the last four miles cf ite course past Amritsar,

31the bauk is considerably higher, even resem bhinethe Dhaia which

32overlooks the Bods, but nt no otber point in its course is the bank

33sufficiuntly high to withetand the force of the flood current, It

34carries rusher more fertilizing silt than the Bods (which from the

35ive clonrnees of its water ia sometimes called the alli or

36bine) and where thia silt ia thrown wp hoary crops of wheat, cau,

37after the lapse of a year or two, be Asis , Bat cultivation in

38the river bed is always precarious, In the cold weather, the Révi

39dwindles to m most insignificant atream, owing to the Bari

40Doab Canal ae Fa nearly all the wator nt tidhopar,and

41the river iv fordable opposite almout every villege, Indeed

42touch of the cold weather stream comes from springs in the bed

43of the river, and very little of what javes the hills, finds ite

44way down to tho lower reachos. The recession of the water

45haa had on injurious effect on tho fertility of the eae ares

46the banks, both in Amritsar and in other districts,

47Af the moisturo hex gone ont of the weil, aud the poople own-

48ing the riversin villages havo had to resort to -sinking

49Tho Riel

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