1 142 ; PUN.
2 2 wtasson, Bala principal place of a petty district, also called Punjgoor,? and con-
3 201. taining ten small towns or villages. This little territory is a
4 valley, and is one of the most productive places in Beloochistan,
5 yielding in great abundance fine dates, grapes, grain, and escu-
6 lent vegetables. Its fertility is owing to a never-failing supply
7 of water from the river Boodoor or Dustee, which is replenished
8 3 pott. polo» by @ Copious spring’ issuing from its bed about three miles
9 303, 305. above the town. The population is in general agricultural, and
10 greatly superior in character and habits to the other Brahooic
11 tribes of the neighbourhood. The chief, a relative of the Khan
12 of Kelat, was formerly his vassal, but has lately made himself
13 independent. The annual income of this petty potentate is be-
14 lieved not to exceed an amount equal to 2,000/. sterling. Lat.
15 27° 20’, long. 62° 42’.
16 PUNJNUD,* a great stream of the Punjab, discharges into
17 the Indus the collected water of the Ghara and Trimab, and con-
18 sequently of the Sutlej, Beas, Ravee, Chenaub, and Jailum. The
19 great channel bearing the name of Punjnud commences at the
20 confluence of the Ghara and Trimab, in lat. 29° 21’, long. 71° 6’,
21 | Sella BOE, and, taking a south-westerly course of about sixty miles,! joins
22 the Indus nearly opposite Mittunkote, and if lat. 28° 57’, long.
23 2 Bokh. i. 287. 70° 30’. Burnes? describes the commencement of the Punjnud,
24 or confluence of the Trimab and Ghara, as “‘ formed without vio-
25 lence, and the low banks of both rivers lead to constant alteration
26 in the point of the union, which but a year ago was two miles
27 higher up. This circumstance renders it difficult to decide on
28 the relative size of these rivers at their junction; both are about
29 five hundred yards wide, but the Chenaub (Trimab) is more rapid.
30 Immediately below the confluence the united stream exceeds eight
31 hundred yards ; but in its course to the Indus, though it expands
32 sometimes to a greater size, the Chenaub rarely widens to six
33 hundred yards. In this part of its course it is likewise subject
34 to change. The depth is greatest near its confluence with the
35 Indus, exceeding twenty feet ; but it decreases in ascending the
36 river to about fifteen. The current is swifter than the Indus,
37 running at the rate of three and a half miles an hour. The Che-
38 inane naub (Punjnud) has some sand-banks, but they do not interrupt
39 Bing 18ST, > 207, its navigation by the ‘ zohruks,’ or flat-bottomed boats.” Wade
40 Mackeson, Acc. of
41 ‘Wado’s Voyage
42 down the Sutlej,
43 * From A) “ five,” > “ river.”
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