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Punjab District Gazetteers Jhelum District With Maps 1904

1904

On the north it is bounded by the Ditrict of Thiwalpindi on the south by the Districts of Gujrtit and Slaihpui on the east by Kashmir territory and on the west by the District of Miainwtili. [...] Beginning from the eastern corner of the District near the &stern town of Jhelum the country between the termination of the "''' Langarpur hills and the river is a small and even but slightly elevated plateau of good soil. [...] In the east of the District too fine views of the snows of the Pir Panjiil can be obtained in winter from many points with a wooded reach of the river or in other parts the many successive ranges of the interveing hills in the foreground. [...] The drainage of the eastern end of the District is by means of teat= the Kahtin and Bunhtft torrents iLto the Jhelum ; that of.the'wesern by the Sauj Qabhir Ankar and other streams into the Sawtin and so to the Indus. [...] The line of watershed runs right across the tahsfl and almost through the town of Chakwil that is to say that the whole of the east Salt Range and all the auxiliary hills in the Jhelum Tahsfl drain towards the Jhelum river.
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Pages
61
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
253-254 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
255-313 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view