1 124 PUNJAB.
2 8 Moorer. Punj. length of its course. Issuing from a lake ® embosomed in the
3 Bokh.i, 107. Himalaya, in lat. 32° 30’, long. 76° 36’, it holds a very tortuous
4 course, Lut generally in a south-westerly direction, for about four
5 hundred and fifty miles to its confluence with the Chenaub. This
6 last-mentioned river,* usually regarded as the largest of the
7 Punjab, flows in general west of that of the Ravee, though its
8 source is more-eastward as it sweeps in a wide flexure round the
9 upper part of the smaller rivers. Rising in Lahoul, in lat. 32° 30’,
10 9 Id. 1.196, long. 77° 40’,9 the Chenaub pursues a circuitous dourse, but for
11 the most part south-west, and at the distance of about five
12 hundred and forty miles from its source, unites with the Jailum
13 Cae ce near Trimo Ferry.! The united stream, proceeding in the same
14 ney, in Elph. oso, direction for about fifty miles, receives the water of the Ravee ;?
15 ® Id. fil, 305. below the confluence it loses the name of Chenaub, and is called
16 3 Boileau, Raj-
17 warn, 62 ; don Ae the Trimab*+ for a farther distance of a hundred and ten miles to
18 . Beng. 1837, p. : ‘ : ‘
19 sor. backeson'en the junction of the Ghara. From that point the river flows
20 bec des about sixty miles, as before mentioned, to its confluence with
21 the Indus, being called the Punjnud,{ a name derived from
22 its conveying the accumulated water of the Beas, the Sutlej, the
23 Ravee, the Chenaub, and the Jailum. This last river, the most
24 * Vigne, Kashmir, westerly, except the Indus, rises in Kashmir,‘ the whole valley of
25 i, 202, 335; ° ° a ‘ . m .
26 Moorer. Punj. | Which it drains. Soon after its issue therefrom, it receives a
27 alg tae large tributary, the Kishengunga, or river of Mazufurabad, and
28 Kaschmir, iv. 118, after a course of about four hundred and fifty miles, generally in
29 a south-westerly direction, it unites with the Chenaub near
30 Trimo Ferry. The Indus forms the western boundary of the
31 : , Punjab for about five hundred miles from Derbend, in the
32 pee Nur gus north, to the confluence of the Punjnud. These noble
33 6 . . . . . .
34 ; dloorer. ii. 305. streams, besides their inestimable value for the purposes of irri-
35 Vigne, i. 217.
36 ® Burnes’ Bokh. gation, afford means of inland navigation scarcely equalled.
37 fen As.Soc, hus the Indus is navigable to Attok,® the Jailum to Oin,® the
38 Nii is Chenaub’ to Aknur, the Ravee® to Lahore, the Sutlej to
39 of Wade's Voyage Ropur.2 There does not appear to be any direct and certain
40 Pp Pp: y
41 down the Sutlej.
42 ' Ritter. Era- [ . : :
43 kunde Von Asien, * Considered to be the Acesines! of the classical writers.
44 fii, 1064; v. 452, * +
45 464; Wilson, | t From (¢,5 “ three,’”” and C_»| *‘ water.”
46 Ariana Antiqua, . A F ;
47 105; Rennell, 82. t+ From “ five,” and gw “a river.’
48 2 Wileon, Ariana Cae & : .
49 Antiqua, 195; § The Jailum is considered to be the Hydaspes? of the classical writers ;
50 Yan Riu ®® the Bitastha, or Vitastha, of the Sunscrit.
51 1147,