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Gazetteer of the Bahawalpur State With Map 1904

1904

which separates it from the Montgomery and Multiin Districts or the Punjab then by the combined waters of the Sutlej and Clieniib which teparate it from the Muzaffargarh District of the Punjab and finally from the point where the joint streams meet the Indus by the Indus 'Which divides it from the Punjab District of Dora Glitizi Khan and that of Jacobabad in Sind. [...] The depth of spring water below the surface of the ground increases in proportion to the distance from the rivers but in.a greater ratio to the north-east than towards the south-west of the State. [...] They have been left deserted in a great measure in consequence of the westering tendency' of all the great Punjab rivers and the l ise of the country from the edge of the central tract to the present bed of the rivers shows that the earliest course of both the Sutlej and Indus was along the edge of the central tract and that they have worked northwards and westwards to their present positions. [...] And the second is curiously confirmed by certain loops in either side of its course and which the people say were the distributaries of the huge canal.") Whatever the facts dimly commemorated ill those legends may have been the people regard the Trukri and Gurhila as one and the same stream but Colonel Minchin was disposed to identify the Trukri with the old bed of the Bois and to regard the G [...] General Cunningham has shown that the Indus was joined by the Chenab opposite the Lowe of Uch and the old lino of the river can be traced from this point to Firoza in the bed of the old Khanwah Canal and iu his description of the changes in the course of the Boas he states that " in molt of our maps the old Beds is conducted into the lower course of the Bhatiyari whereas its still existing an
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Pages
406
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Frontmatter
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Chapter I.— Descriptive
1-208 Malik Muhammad Din view
Chapter II.— Economic
209-280 Malik Muhammad Din view
Chapter III.— Administrative
281-351 Malik Muhammad Din view
Chapter IV.— Places of Interest
352-392 Malik Muhammad Din view
Appendix
i-iv Malik Muhammad Din view
Map
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