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WESTERN HINDOOSTAN. 



Copper, Rozveyy Tin, Brafs, and Lead. Rowey is unknown to 

 me; brafs is fadlitious. I am doubtful as to feme of thefe 

 metals being found in India. Farther enquiry may afcer- 

 tain the metallic produ6tions of India in the courfe of this 

 volume. 



Rock Salt. A VAST mountain of rock fait is found in this province, 



equal to that of Cardonna, and, like the fait of that mountain, 

 is cut into difhes, plates, and ftands for lamps. Ice is an article 

 of commerce from the northern mountains, and fold at Lahore 

 throughout the year. 



Canal. The famous canal of Shab Nebr begins at Ragipour, and is 



continued almoft parallel to the Rauvee, and ends at Lahore, a 

 diftance of above eighty miles. The intent of this canal feems to 

 have been to fupply Lahore with water in the dry feafon, when 

 all the Indian rivers are from twenty to thirty feet below the 

 level of their banks. Three other canals, for the purpofe of 

 watering the country on the fouth and eaft of Lahore, were 

 drawn from the fame place. Thefe, formed in a diitant age, 

 are ftrong proofs of attention to rural oeconomy, and the benefit 

 of the fubjedt. 



Chunaub, The Chunaub, for a few miles, is continued from its forks 



in a fingle channel. Near Zufferabad, the Jhylum, or Behut, 

 falls into it with vaft rapidity and violence. This was the place 

 where Alexander fo nearly loft his fleet in the paflage through 

 this turbulent conflux. The Chunaub flows in a ftrait channel 

 from the foot of the Himmaleh or Imaus, and there originates 

 from two ftreams which quickly re-unite. Gujerat, and Jum- 

 moo and Miindal, are town and forts on its banks. From the 

 origin of the Chunaub to that of th^Rauvee, is a plain trail, 

 6 bounded 



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