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)

CHAP. XII.

chenab and sutlege.

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CHAP. XII.

the chenab, or acesines, joined by the
sutlege, or hesudrus.

The Acesines of the Greeks, or the modern Chenab,
is lost in the Indus at Mittun, having previously
gathered the waters of the Punjab rivers. The
junction is formed without noise or violence, for the
banks are depressed on both sides, and the river is
expanded: an eddy is cast to the eastern side,
which sinks the water below the usual level, but it
does not occasion danger. The Euphrates and
Tigris, when joined, pass to the ocean under the
name of the " river of the Arabs," and the appel-
lation of Punjnud, or " the five rivers," has been
bestowed on this portion of the Chenab ; but it is a
designation unknown to the people living on its
banks, and adopted, I conclude, for geographical
convenience.

Under the parallel of 29° 20' north latitude, and
five miles above Ooch, the Chenab receives the
Garra, or joint stream of the Beas and Sutlege
(Hyphasis and Hesudrus of antiquity). This junc-
tion is also formed without violence, and the low
banks of both rivers lead to constant alteration in
the point of the union, which, but a year ago, was
two miles higher up. This circumstance renders

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