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INDUS.
them, at various positions, that will better illustrate this matter,
than a long paragraph. * The actual breadth of its channel I have
likewise included in this table, and it only remains for me to add,
that the natives affirm there is no bar at the mouth of the river,
nor any obstacle so high as Lahoree Bunder, (to which place in fact,
it is an arm of the sea,) that would prevent even a line of battle
ship from going up, provided she was in charge of a skilful pilot.
Notwithstanding the great depth of water, which the table exhibits in
the Indus, the commerce is entirely carried on between Sinde and the
Punjab and Uffghanistan in flat bottomed boats that carry from one
to three hundred tons, and yet are so constructed, as to draw but a
TABLE of the Depth and Breadth of the Channel of the River Indus, (a)
Latitudes.
V33 0
55
N.
v33 0
7
N.
v31 0
52
N.
v31 0
28
N.
29°
54
N.
29°
20
N.
o
oo
O*
27
N.
27°
13
N.
26°
6
N.
a25 0
22
N.
a25 0
9
N.
^24°
44
N.
a24 0
40
N.
24°
32
N.
24°
29
N.
24°
8' N.
Places.
Attock
Kalabagh
C Derue Ismael
^ Khan
Kuheree
C Derue Ghazee 7
I Khan 5
Rajunpoor
c Conflux of the")
^ Punjnud 5
Bhukor
Sehwan
Hyderabad
Fulelee river
Tattah
Peer Putta
Lahoree Bunder
Dharajay Bunder
C Extreme of the }
^ land )
DEPTH.
Dry
Wet
Season.
Season.
2 fath.
2 do.
3 do.
7 fath.
3 do.
7 do.
8 do.
16 do.
5 do.
10 do.
3 do.
6 do.
5 do.
8 do.
5 do.
10 do.
4 do.
6 do.
7 do.
18 do.
11 do.
16 do.
13 do.
16 do.
13 do.
16 do.
BREADTH.
Dry Season.
260 yards.
380 do.
1000 do.
1200 do.
1000 do.
1400 do.
2200 do.
1600
900
2000
2200
1800
700
4
9
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
miles,
do.
12 do.
Remarks.
When the mission to
Kabool crossed the In
dus at Attock, on the
21st of June, 1809, the
depth was unascertain
ed, from the rapidity
of the current, which is
here confined by banks
40 feet high, to the top
of which the waters
often rise during the
freshes. At Kalabagh
the stream is slow, still,
and extremely deep.
I have adopted the
breadth exclusively of
the dry weather, as the
really narrowest places
often seem the broad
est in the floods.
(a) The depth and breadth in the dry season of those marked thus v> were ascertained by the KaboM mission. Those
thus A, by that to Sinde, and the remainder are from the best native information I could procure.