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CHAP. X. from mittun to attok. 265
CHAP. X.
the indus from mittun to attok.
While on our progress to Mooltan, by the Chenab,
or Acesines, I made various enquiries, and sent dif-
ferent people to acquire precise information, regard-
ing the Indus above Mittun. The Cabool mission in
1809 came upon that river, at Oodoo da Kote, about
100 miles north of the point in question ; and I was
anxious to connect my own surveys with that place,
and thus complete our knowledge of the Indus from
the sea to Attok.
The river runs, in this part of its course, nearly
due south, and is free from danger and difficulty in
navigation. It is here generally known by the name of
Sinde, or Attok, and traverses a country much the same
as I have described near Mittun, being often widely
spread, from the lowness of its banks. Its breadth
is considerably diminished; for at Kaheree, when
Mr. Elphinstone crossed it in January, the sound-
ings did not exceed twelve feet, with a breadth of
1000 yards, while the Indus, after it has received
the Punjab rivers, rolls past Mittun with a width ex-
actly twofold. On the left bank, too, the soundings
were found to be four fathoms deep.
On the right bank of the river the province of
Dera Ghazee Khan occupies the country as far as
CHAP. X.
the indus from mittun to attok.
While on our progress to Mooltan, by the Chenab,
or Acesines, I made various enquiries, and sent dif-
ferent people to acquire precise information, regard-
ing the Indus above Mittun. The Cabool mission in
1809 came upon that river, at Oodoo da Kote, about
100 miles north of the point in question ; and I was
anxious to connect my own surveys with that place,
and thus complete our knowledge of the Indus from
the sea to Attok.
The river runs, in this part of its course, nearly
due south, and is free from danger and difficulty in
navigation. It is here generally known by the name of
Sinde, or Attok, and traverses a country much the same
as I have described near Mittun, being often widely
spread, from the lowness of its banks. Its breadth
is considerably diminished; for at Kaheree, when
Mr. Elphinstone crossed it in January, the sound-
ings did not exceed twelve feet, with a breadth of
1000 yards, while the Indus, after it has received
the Punjab rivers, rolls past Mittun with a width ex-
actly twofold. On the left bank, too, the soundings
were found to be four fathoms deep.
On the right bank of the river the province of
Dera Ghazee Khan occupies the country as far as