Burnes, Alexander: Travels into Bokhara: containing the narrative of a voyage on the Indus from the sea to Lahore, ... and an account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary and Persia ; performed by order of the supreme government of India, in the years 1831, 32, and 33 (Band 1) (London, 1835)

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MEMOIR OF THE INDUS.

CHAPTER I.

a general view of the indus.

There is an uninterrupted navigation from the sea
to Lahore. The distance, by the course of the
river, amounts to about a thousand British miles:
the following papers detail its practicability with
minuteness ; but not more so, I trust, than the great
importance of the subject deserves. They also
describe the state of the countries and people.

The Indus, when joined by the Punjab rivers,
never shallows, in the dry season, to less than
fifteen feet, and seldom preserves so great a breadth
as half a mile. The Chenab, or Acesines, has a
medium depth of twelve feet: and the Ravee, or
Hydraotes, is about half the size of that river.
These are the minima of soundings on the voyage;
but the usual depth of the three rivers cannot be
rated at less than four, three, and two fathoms.
The soundings of each day's voyage are shown by
the figures on the map."*

' * These have been necessarily omitted in a reduced map.

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