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centre bearing S. 34° E. At 4, a party of officers visited the shore,
and during their rambles discovered, carved on a tree in conspicuous
characters, the words “ dig under,” which they immediately did, and
found a bottle containing a letter from Captain Lewis, of the Isabella,
dated the 28th July 1836, detailing the results of his proceedings to the
northward,—an account of which I have before alluded to.
Art. X .—Journal by Lieutenant W. Christopher, of the Indian
Navy, of his Ascent of the River Chenab.—Dated Vizerabad, 1st
October, 1847.
[Presented by Government.]
No. 29 of 1848.
From Lieutenant Christopher, I. N., ls£ Assistant Indus Flotilla, on
special duty in the Meanee steamer, to Commander F. T. Powell,
I. N., Commanding Indus Flotilla, Kotree,—Dated Vizerabad, Oc
tober 1st, 1847.
Sir, —In pursuance of the requisition from the Eesident at Lahore,—a
copy of which I forwarded,—the Meanee, steam-tender, quitted Buckree
wood-station, situated at the point of the confluence of the Chenab and Sut
lej rivers, on the 8 th ultimo, to ascend the Kavee to Lahore. I had been
assured that wood was prepared by the chiefs of villages for this expe
riment, but it seemed prudent to take in two days’ fuel, or 400 maunds.
The channel of the Chenab was found intricate and shallow for the first
ten miles, the river flowing down in several passages; but a little above?
the water kept in one channel for many miles, the average depth being
ten feet, and current three miles an hour. The steamer made good pro
gress, the river not winding so much as the Sutlej. Found some excel
lent fuel ready at twelve miles (stacked on right bank,) at Sultanpar.
Proceeded on, and at dark secured at Tibbah village on right bank,
having made thirty-three miles from 8 a. m. General direction of river
N. by E. Throughout this day, the cultivation on both banks has been
most luxuriant, and population dense for the east. Sugar-cane seems
much cultivated between the Chenab and Indus. Indigo, tobacco, and
grain, are in the ground. The waters of the Chenab in this, its lower
course, are red in colour, and its bed is generally clay, though sandy
places are occasionally met with. Where the bed of a river is formed of