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5 112 PUL—PUN.
6 each bank, and is bounded right and left by perpendicular cliffs,
7 the brows of which, on both sides, are level with the desert. The
8 narrow valley extending between those cliffs is fertile, and where
9 cultivated and irrigated, by means of channels from the river,
10 highly productive. When left in a state of nature, it becomes
11 overrun with tamarisk jungle, and affords good grazing, in lat.
12 80° 30’, long. 62° 42’.
13 PUL-I-MALAN, in Western Afghanistan, a bridge near
14 Herat, over the Herirood, which is itself sometimes called by the
15 name of Pul-i-Malan. (See Hrriroop.)
16 PULLEEJA, in Sinde, a village situate on the left bank of
17 the Indus, in lat. 27° 32’, long. 68° 25’.
18 PULLEEJA, in Sinde, a village on the road from Larkhana
19 to Shikarpoor. Lat. 27° 48’, long. 68° 35’.
20 PULUNG, in Sinde, a village on the western route from
21 Roree to Hyderabad, and fifteen miles west of the former town.
22 Lat. 27° 40’, long. 68° 39’.
23 PUMJA GOTE, in Sinde, a village on the route from Hydera-
24 bad to Lucput, and seventy miles south of the former town. It
25 is situate near the Goongroo offset of the Indus. Lat. 24° 25’,
26 long. 68° 19’.
27 1 Viene, Knshmir, | PUNCH,! in the Northern Punjab, a small town on the
28 i, 248; F. Von
29 Hugel, Kaschimir,
30 i. 355 Moorer.
31 Punj Bokh. fi.
32 283.
33 2 Vigne, i. 249.
34 3 Jacquemont,
35 Voy, v. 166,
36 ! Punj. Bokh. ti.
37 207,
38 southern slope of the mountains bounding Kashmir on the south.
39 It is situate at the foot of the Punch Pass, and on the banks of a
40 river of the same name, discharging itself into the Chenaub. It
41 was formerly the capital of a small independent raj, the raja of
42 which was slain by Gulab Singh, the Sikh chief, who exposed his
43 head, and that of his nephew, in an iron cage. At Punch, two
44 much-frequented routes from the Punjab to Kashmir, that by
45 Koteli and that by Rajawur, meet and proceed thence northward,
46 through the Baramula Pass. Elevation of the Punch Pass,” 8,500
47 feet ; of the town, 3,280.3 Punch is in lat. 33° 51’, long. 73° 53’.
48 PUNCH RIVER, in the Punjab, rises on the south-western
49 declivity of the Pir Panjal Pass, about lat. 33° 33’, long. 74° 20’,
50 and takes a direction generally north-westerly down the valley,
51 dividing the Pir Panjal from the Ratan Panjal. After continuing
52 in that direction for about -fifty miles, it, close to the town of
53 Punch, receives a feeder from the north, and below the confluence
54 turns to the south-west. Here it is styled by Moorcroft! a
55 ‘rivulet, but Jacquemont, who mentions it under the name of