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TOLUMBA.
CHAP. V.
yards in breadth in any part of its course. Its banks
are precipitous, so that it deepens before it expands.
Nothing can exceed the crookedness of its course,
which is a great impediment to navigation, for we
often found ourselves, after half a day's sail, within
two miles of the spot from which we started. The
water of the Ravee is redder than that of the Che-
nab. It is fordable in most places for eight months
of the year. Its banks are overgrown with reeds
and tamarisk, and for half the distance, from its
estuary to the capital, there is no cultivation. There
are no canals or cuts from this river below La-
hore. There is a very extensive one above that
city, which I shall have occasion to mention here-
after.
On the 27th of June we reached the small town
of Tolumba, which is situated in a grove of date
trees, nearly three miles south of the Ravee.
SherifF-o-Deen, the historian of Timour, informs us
that that conqueror crossed the Ravee at Tolumba,
on his route to Delhi, so that we now found our-
selves on the track of another invader. The
Tartar is yet remembered by his offerings at the
shrines in this neighbourhood. Below the town,
the Ravee assumes a straight course for twelve
miles, and presents a vista of beautiful scenery, as
the banks are fringed with lofty trees, that over-
hang the river. The natives attribute this pecu-
liarity to divine influence. The clothes of a saint,
when bathing, were washed into the stream, and
the eyes of the holy man, when turned in search of
them, straightened the river!
TOLUMBA.
CHAP. V.
yards in breadth in any part of its course. Its banks
are precipitous, so that it deepens before it expands.
Nothing can exceed the crookedness of its course,
which is a great impediment to navigation, for we
often found ourselves, after half a day's sail, within
two miles of the spot from which we started. The
water of the Ravee is redder than that of the Che-
nab. It is fordable in most places for eight months
of the year. Its banks are overgrown with reeds
and tamarisk, and for half the distance, from its
estuary to the capital, there is no cultivation. There
are no canals or cuts from this river below La-
hore. There is a very extensive one above that
city, which I shall have occasion to mention here-
after.
On the 27th of June we reached the small town
of Tolumba, which is situated in a grove of date
trees, nearly three miles south of the Ravee.
SherifF-o-Deen, the historian of Timour, informs us
that that conqueror crossed the Ravee at Tolumba,
on his route to Delhi, so that we now found our-
selves on the track of another invader. The
Tartar is yet remembered by his offerings at the
shrines in this neighbourhood. Below the town,
the Ravee assumes a straight course for twelve
miles, and presents a vista of beautiful scenery, as
the banks are fringed with lofty trees, that over-
hang the river. The natives attribute this pecu-
liarity to divine influence. The clothes of a saint,
when bathing, were washed into the stream, and
the eyes of the holy man, when turned in search of
them, straightened the river!