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memoir of the indus.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XV.
the chenab, or acesines, joined by the
ravee, or hydraotes.
The Acesines is the largest of the Punjab rivers,
but its size has been exaggerated. Ptolemy informs
us that it is fifteen furlongs wide in the upper part
of its course ; and Arrian states that it surpasses the
Nile when it has received the waters of the Punjab,
falling into the Indus by a mouth of thirty stadia.
Alexander warred in the rainy season, when these
rivers are much swollen, and when the inundation
had set in for two months. We have already ex-
posed the latter part of this amplification, in con-
fining the Chenab to a breadth of 600 yards, and a
depth of twenty feet. There is no perceptible di-
minution in the size of this stream, from the Sut-
ledge upwards, for that river increases the depth
without adding to the breadth; and the Chenab,
south of the Ravee, will be found, as I have before
described it, only with the shallow soundings of
twelve feet. Its banks are so low, that it is in
some places spread as much as 1200 yards, and
looks as large as the Indus. At Mooltan ferry it
was 1000 yards across, and below its junction with
the Ravee, above three quarters of a mile ; but these
are exceptions to the general features of the stream.
memoir of the indus.
CHAP. XV.
CHAP. XV.
the chenab, or acesines, joined by the
ravee, or hydraotes.
The Acesines is the largest of the Punjab rivers,
but its size has been exaggerated. Ptolemy informs
us that it is fifteen furlongs wide in the upper part
of its course ; and Arrian states that it surpasses the
Nile when it has received the waters of the Punjab,
falling into the Indus by a mouth of thirty stadia.
Alexander warred in the rainy season, when these
rivers are much swollen, and when the inundation
had set in for two months. We have already ex-
posed the latter part of this amplification, in con-
fining the Chenab to a breadth of 600 yards, and a
depth of twenty feet. There is no perceptible di-
minution in the size of this stream, from the Sut-
ledge upwards, for that river increases the depth
without adding to the breadth; and the Chenab,
south of the Ravee, will be found, as I have before
described it, only with the shallow soundings of
twelve feet. Its banks are so low, that it is in
some places spread as much as 1200 yards, and
looks as large as the Indus. At Mooltan ferry it
was 1000 yards across, and below its junction with
the Ravee, above three quarters of a mile ; but these
are exceptions to the general features of the stream.