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Punjab District Gazetteers Gujrat District

1921

It is bounded on the norteast by the Jammu territory of the Maharaja of Kashmir : on the north-west by the river Jhelum which separates it from the British district of the same name ; on the south by the river Chenab separating it from the districts of Gujranwala and Sialkot ; on the east by the river Tawi which divides it from the Bajwat or northernmost paragnah of the Sialkot District ; an [...] The northern corner of the district is cut off from the Jhelum by a range of hills which commencing on the frontier of this district five miles below the town of Bhimbar in Jammu passes in a straight line to the south-west till it strikes the Jhelum immediately above the village of Rasul. [...] The Gujrat range which marks the commencement of this region is known by the name of Pabbi that being the name according to the dialect of the country for high raving unproductiys ground ; its highest point 1 400 feet above sea level and about 600 feet above the plain is reached in the bill of Mori three miles to the west of the point where the Grand Trunk Road enters the outskirts of th [...] In the hot weather when the river is swollen by the melting of snow in Kashmir and by the rains it rises to a stream two miles wide and then the combined demands of the Upper Jhelum and the Lower Jhelum Canal take but a small part of the total supply. [...] The belt of irrigated land in the Shahpur District interposed between this district and the dry tracts of the Western' Punjab does not as yet seem to have had much effect in altering the climate but with the opening of the Upper Jhelum and the Upper Chenab Canals there will now be a large compact area which by the extesion of cultivation and the growth of timber should have the fierce heat
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Pages
187
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vi Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I—Descriptive
1-66 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter II—Economic
67-111 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter III—Administrative
112-158 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Appendices
159-179 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view