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Punjab District Gazetteers. Jullundur District with Maps 1904

1908

The bank is cut up by ravines (ghag) through which the drainage-water of the uplands pours down into the Bet often carrying sand with it and forming miniature chos or sand-torrents and in many places forming swamps and marshes in the vicinity of the bank where probably the deep stream of the Sutlej formerly ran and where the depression so caused has not yet silted up to the level of the adjoin [...] The greater part of the District belongs to the basin of the Sutlej and only alma 11 portion in the north to that of the Begs. [...] General Cunningham identifies the liar with the Ptira ' the Hari with the Raghi and the Niirni with the Silk-N4 all dry beds of the Betts River and the Dand with " the Dhamak 'or Dank an old channel of the Sutlej which in its lower course takes the name of Bhatiytiri." The Para may be admitted for the Hiri as it is not really a Beds but a Sutlej nullah and a branch of the Sohtig. [...] The most important is that immediately to the south and east of the town of Rawl in the Nawashahr Taltsfl; it is fed by the Sutlej when in flood through both branches of the Nerf and by drainage from the uplands and as the bottom of the marsh is lower than most of the swampy country in the east of the Bet percolation goes on most of the year so that there is always some water in the swamp t [...] One hand is placed at Nandikeshwara„ (that is on the top of the head) and the other at Baijnith (near the head) while the feet are at Kalesar on the left bank of the Begs river to the soutn of Jawila Mukhi.
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Pages
96
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter I.—Descriptive
465-535 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view
Chapter IV.—Places of Interest
536-559 Under the Authority of the Punjab Government view