Gazetteer Amritsar 1892

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1[ Punjab Gazotteer,

24 CHAP, 1—THE DisTEICT.

3where it wax nover required before. The constant complaint

4along the Ravi is, that the river hae gone back, and left then:

5high and dry, while the recurring summer floods work tlamuye

6in afew woeks which it takes a long time to repair, Bot thie

7hina heen going on for over thirty x re aver since the omnal

8was opened, and thore ie no doubt that well-sinking is the only

9remedy for the decrease in moiatare. Iti fortunate that as the

10water lovel is onaily reached, walle Loing from J4 to 20 feut

11devp (water inclnded), woll-sinking is cheap and nilvances

12from Government ean alroost always be obtained. There is ne

13bridge of boats on the Ravi One used to be mnintained at

14Kakar, threo miles from the Lahore bordor, to serve the traffic

15on the road between Amritsar and Gujrinwala, but it has been

16given op,

17‘Tho only othor nisl stream found in the district, is

18that known as the inala, It risesin the Bahrimpar winrah

19in the Gardéepur District, and is there known, not as the Sakki,

20but ns the Kiran. It enters the Amritsar Diatrict near Rim Dar

21and winds throngh the Ajnéla tahsil in a deep tortuous bed

22between abrupt banks, past Ajndla and Sauridn and finally falls

23into the Ravi at Rénidu, near where the bridge of boats used to

24be on the Gajranwaéla road. At times it rises in flood, and the

25volume of water is sometimes swelled by escape water, let into it

264 achnnnel cut from the cans) at Aliwdl in Gurdaspur, when

27¢ canal ix closed for repairs. Thore is reason to beliove thatit

28follows the course which the Ravi once took, or mther that

29it Hows just under what used to be the high left bank of the

30Ravi. Cortainly the left bank of the Sakki 1s are the

31higher of the two, and is hardened by the nodales of kankar

32with which, near Karial and Séuriéu, and up to the confluence

33with the Révi, the loft bank abounds. Conseqnently the tract

34between the Sakki und tho Ravi is a more recent alluvial

35formation than the rest of the district, Tho strom is sluggish

36and erosion of the banks ix almost ufikeown, Damage is done by

37floods, however, to the spring crops sown on the shelving land

38sloping down to the edge of the banks; aud by spills into de-

39pressions loading from the Sakki towards the Ravi. It may be

40suid to have = far tiaclees for irrigation purposes, ite

41floods deposit no silt, Al wr it ia not always » welcome

42neighbour, for besides the occusionully eansod hy it, it is

43A great interroption to communications. It is only bridged at the

44point, where the road from Ajndia to Raya crosses it, and though

45thore are fords and local village ferries at cther points, it

46only b0: peeved by: Jemiell cars wit considerable difficulty.

47project was lately on foot to construct « canal, taking out of

48Sakki within Gurdéspur limits, which water part of

49impoverished country between the Sakki and Ravi, but there

50many difficulties in the and it is doubtful whether, i

51schaale- were sechired teens hea Gaanckit aasellli An attem

52haa late! eaple wnaabaeng ap seve hha thr

53Die to throw a dum across the Sakki and so divert water,

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