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2 united, and form an expansive and rapid stream.” ‘The two
3 first branches are fordable, but the third, which is the principal
4 one, has a ferry.” He remarks, that the boats on the Ravee
5 were the largest and best-built that he has seen in India.
6 ®Bokh. 1.125. Burnes,® who navigated the Ravee from its confluence with the
7 Chenaub to Lahore, says it “‘ is very small, and resembles a canal,
8 rarely exceeding a hundred and fifty yards in breadth in any part
9 of its course. Its banks are precipitous, so that it deepens before
10 it expands. Nothing can exceed the crookedness of its course,
11 which is a great impediment to navigation, for we often found
12 ourselves, after half a day’s sail, within two miles of the spot
13 from which we started. The water of the Ravee is redder than
14 that of the Chenaub. It is fordable in most places for eight
15 months in the year.” From Lahore, its course south-west, mea-
16 sured according to the main direction of the stream, to its con-
17 fiuence with the Chenaub, is about two hundred miles, but along
18 7 Yd, Sil. 805. all the sinuosities, three hundred and eighty.’ This point is in
19 lat. 30° 33’, long. 71° 46’. The Ravee joins the Chenaub by three
20 mouths close to each other. Its total length, measured along
21 the main direction of its course, is about four hundred and fifty
22 tmiles.* It is considered to be the Hydraotes mentioned by
23 ® vi.xtv; Rennell, Arrian,® and the Iravati of Sanscrit authorities : it is still known
24 82; Wilton, = by the name of the Iraotee,? which might easily be corrupted
25 Ariana Antiqua,
26 195, 200; Ritter, by the Greeks into that which they appear to have given it.
27 poesia RAWDON, in Sinde, a group of three or four villages on the
28 aie wee route from Sehwan to Larkhana, and eleven miles north of the
29 ELC. Ms. Doc, former town, It is situate close to a watercourse sent off from
30 the Indus on the right side, and is two miles from the main
31 channel. The road in this part of the route is level, and in
32 general good, except that it is cut up in some places by channels
33 formed for irrigation. The adjacent country is fertile and well
34 cultivated. Lat. 26° 30’, long. 67° 55’.
35 Elph. Acc. of RAWIL PINDE, in the Punjab, between the Indus and the
36 Sak Rare Jailum. It is a large, populous town, consisting of mud houses
37 Exp. in Afg. 339; with flat roofs. It contains, what is called a palace, a wretched
38 Banh hee building of brick, constructed by Shah Soojah, on his expulsion
39 et from Kabool. There is a large bazaar, and a considerable busi-
40 lil, 103. ness in the transit trade between Hindostan and Afghanistan.
41 In Elph. 661. * The estimate of Macartney is less, being only four hundred and fifteen
42 miles, but he did not know the exact locality of its source.