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2 south-westerly direction, the Ravee is joined by two feeders, the
3 Nye and the Boodhill, the latter taking its rise in a lake called
4 Munee Muhees, regarded as sacred by the superstitious*Hindoos.*
5 Where surveyed by Cunningham, four or five miles from Burma-
6 wur, at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, and in lat. 32° 30’,
7 ‘long. 76° 30’, it was found one hundred and sixteen feet wide.
8 At Chumba, about sixty miles below and south-west of this
9 place, or a hundred miles from its source, according to the state-
10 ment of Vigne, the Ravee is crossed by a bridge. Forster? states ? Jour. Beng. Eng.
11 that it is there “forty or fifty yards broad, and fordable at most * **
12 seasons of the year.” At Bisuli, to which the downward course
13 is about twenty-five miles due west, Forster found it, early in
14 April, about a hundred and twenty yards wide, very rapid, and
15 unfordable. The statement of Vigne’ is less explicit. ‘“ I have * Kashmir, 1. 171.
16 been twice ferried over the Ravi at Bisuli, once during the rainy
17 season, when it was swelled to a roaring torrent, and once again
18 in winter, when its stream was far more tranquil. On both occa-
19 sions the natives made the passage upon buffalo hides. Its width
20 is about eighty yards.” From Bisuli, in lat. 32° 25’, long. 75°
21 28’, the Ravee takes a south-westerly direction, which it gene.
22 rally holds for the rest of its course. Macartney4 found it, at ‘In Eiph. Ace. of
23 Meanee ferry, on the route from Amritsir to Vazeerabad, and Stu! $l.
24 about two hundred and twenty miles from its source, to have, at’
25 the beginning of August and at the time of fullest water, a breadth
26 of five hundred and thirteen yards, and a depth of twelve feet,
27 where greatest. The deep channel was between thirty and forty
28 feet in breadth, the rest of the waterway having a depth of from
29 three to five feet. In the cold season, when lowest, the
30 water is in no part more than four feet deep. Moorcroft : Pe aa
31 describes it at Lahore, about twenty-five «miles lower down, as
32 divided into three different streams or branches. These, he states,
33 are “ separated, in the dry weather, by intervals of half a mile,
34 but in the rainy season the two most easterly branches} are
35 ~
36 * Vigne considers the Boodbill river, flowing from the Munee Muhees, Kashmir, |. 152.
37 or Muni Mys, as the real Ravee, but the evidence of Cunningham, who ap-
38 Proached nearer the locality, merits more credit.
39 + Moorcroft appears in error in stating the eastern branches of the Ravee
40 to be the principal, as all other accounts represent the western as the main ! Bal. Afg. Panj.
41 stream. There can be no doubt that he is in error in stating that Shahdehra, pear i. 90.
42 the burial-place of Jehanjir, is on the left bank of the Ravee, as Masson,! 9 Jacquemont,
43 Burnes,? and Jacquemont,? agree that it is on the right or west bank, v. 103,