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2 found the Punjnud, abreast of Ooch, about nine hundred yards
3 wide at the scason of low water, and mentions that during the
4 rains it is sometimes six miles across from that town to the op-
5 posite side. The Punjnud is by all accounts a very fine stream.
6 It is navigated by large flat-bottomed boats without keels, but
7 with perpendicular sides, which prevent them from making much
8 leeway, even with the wind on the beam. The confluence of the
9 Punjnud with the Indus takes place without noise or violence,‘ ‘ Burnes, ill. 220.
10 in consequence of the low, soft nature of the banks admitting of
11 @ considerable expansion of the channel there. An eddy sets to
12 the opposite side, and depresses the surface of the water there
13 below the general level, without, however, producing danger or
14 serious impediment to navigation. Burnes® observes, that the ‘ lil. 90, 230.
15 name Punjnud appears to be a European refinement, and is un-
16 known to the people living on its banks, ond that this great
17 stream is called Chenaub by the natives. The contrary, however,
18 appears intimated by Boileau,® who states unambiguously that * Rajwara, 62,
19 Not one of the rivers of the Punjab retains its original name after
20 falling in with another of nearly the same size, and adds ex-
21 plicitly, that after the junction of the Ghara with the Trimab,
22 the united stream bears the name of Punjnud.
23 UNS OOK, in Beloochistan, a village of Cutch Gundava, on E-!-C. Ms. Doe. ;
24 ; tram, Rougl
25 the route from Gundava to Larkhana, and ten miles south of the Noten 60; ‘Ken-
26 former town. Lat. 28° 20’, long. 67° 33’. Ga is
27 PUNJSHIR, generally but corruptly called Panchshir, a
28 tiver in Afghanistan, rises on the south-eastern declivity of the
29 Khawak Pass, in lat. 35° 40’, long. 69° 50’, and at an elevation
30 above the sea of 13,200 feet.! It holds its course in a south- je Oxus,
31 westerly direction for about eighty miles, through the whole " ~
32 length of the valley of Punjshir, and, in lat. 35°, long. 69° 15’,
33 receives the Ghorband river.” It then takes a south-easterly ? Masson, Bal.Afg-
34 direction for about thirty-five miles, and receives the stream ee
35 flowing westward from Koh Damun, and, proceeding from that
36 confluence southwards for a farther distance of about twenty,
37 falls into the Kabool river in lat. 34° 38’, long. 69° 47’.
38 PUNNA, in Afghanistan, a village on the route by the E.1.C. Ms. Doc.
39 Golairee Pass from Dera Ismael Khan to Ghuznee, and twenty-
40 five miles south of the latter place. The road in this part of
41 the route is good, and there is a supply of -water from a subter-~
42 raneous aqueduct. Lat. 33° 7’, long. 68° 10’.