1 260 SUTLUJ.
2 is seventy-five feet broad. Below the confluence, the stream is so
3 deep and rapid that no bottom could be found with a ten-pound
4 sounding lead. From this remarkable point its general course is
5 ‘ Lloyd and Ge- south-west, with a very rapid declivity.4 At Namptoo (lat. 32° 45’,
6 rant, Map. Jong. 78° 36’), the height of its bed is 8,220 feet, its breadth 106;
7 at Wangtoo (lat. 32° 32’, long. 78° 1’) the height of its bed is
8 5,200 feet, the breadth is 92; at Rampoor (lat. 32° 26’, long.
9 77° 38’), the height of the bed is 3,360, the width 211. These
10 measurements were made at the narrowest places, where bridges
11 have been constructed, but in other places it is 150 yards
12 wide. From Rampoor to Bilaspoor, in lat. 31° 21’, long. 76° 41’,
13 54, 239, its course is generally west-south-west.5 Forster, who crossed it
14 here, describes it as a very rapid stream, about one hundred yards
15 broad. Hence it holds a very tortuous course, but in general
16 west-south-west to Ropoor, lat. 30° 58’, long. 76° 29’, where it
17 6 Gerard, Koona- makes® its way through the low sandstone range of Jhejwan, and
18 mea enters the plain of the Punjab. It is here thirty feet deep and
19 more than five hundred yards wide in its season of greatest ful-
20 es Kashmir, ness,’ and is crossed either in boats or on floats of inflated buffalo-
21 $F. Von Hugel, 1. hides.8 As is the case with all the rivers descending from the
22 50; Moorer. 1.40. Himalaya, it is far fullest in June, July, and August. At the ferry
23 of Filor, or Faloor, in lat. 31°, long. 75° 51’, it was found, in the
24 ® Gerard, Koona- season when lowest, to be two hundred and fifty yards wide,® seven
25 wur, 26, : .
26 feet deep, and moderately rapid. Burnes, who crossed it herein
27 August, when fullest, found it seven hundred yards wide, with a
28 depth, where greatest, of eighteen feet, but on an average of only
29 twelve. Up to this point it is navigable at all seasons for vessels
30 ' Journ. 4s. Soc. Of ten or twelve tons burthen.! Its confluence with the Beas is
31 Beng. 1887, P-16 a little above Hurekee, and in lat. 31°11’, long. 74° 54’, Ac-
32 Mackeson, Acc.
33 esate down cording to Macartney,” the Beas has the larger body of water.
34 2 Elphinstone, 602, Gerard appears to over-estimate, by seventy or eighty miles, ‘the
35 distance which it runs from the source to the confluence with the
36 3 Koonawur, 28, Beas. According to his statement,’ “ the whole length of the Sut-
37 lej thus far is five hundred and seventy miles, four hundred and forty
38 of which lie within the mountains.” Below this confluence, as far
39 as the confluence of the Chenaub, the united stream bears the name
40 4 Ritter, Erdkunde-of Ghara. From about thirty miles above Rampoor to the frontier
41 von As.v. 464. of Bhawlpoor, a distance of about three hundred and fifty miles,
42 the continuous streams, Ghara and Sutluj, form the north-west